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Lot 126

A Meissen group of the drunken Silenus, circa 1770

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen group of the drunken Silenus, circa 1770

Silenus seated slumped on a donkey, supported on his left by a standing figure, a putto wreathed in vines at the donkey's feet, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves and grape clusters, 19.7cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (haircrack across base, tiny chips)

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This model was among the groups ordered from Meissen by Frederick the Great during the Seven Years War; see Karl Berling, Meissen China (1910), p. 55.

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