
Sophie von der Goltz
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Paul Scheurich fully started working for the Meissen factory in 1913, the same year Max Adolf Pfeiffer became the director of the factory. He created 106 different designs over two decades at Meissen.
'Seated Diana' was the third model based on classical mythology that Scheurich created for Meissen between 1919 and 1920. Before offering it to the factory, he displayed it at the exhibition of the Berlin Secession in 1920. The figure was then modelled by Meissen in 1921 and the first example sold in 1922. Overall 115 figures were offered for sale until the end of 1931. For a detailed discussion, see Johannes Rafael, Paul Scheurich 1883-1945: Porzellan für die Meissener Manufaktur (1995), p.56. Another example is illustrated in S. & T. Bergmann, The Art of Meissen Figures (2010), no. 1021.