Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 168

A Berlin allegorical figure emblematic of Time and Fame, circa 1766

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£600 - £800

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our European Ceramics specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A Berlin allegorical figure emblematic of Time and Fame, circa 1766

Modelled by Friedrich Elias Meyer or Wilhelm Christian Meyer, in the white, as a bearded man crouching holding an open book on his back and a plumed helmet in his left hand, the scantilly clad lady with arms outstretched, a scythe at her feet, on a triangular base, 31cm high, sceptre mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base (some restoration)

Footnotes

For the attribution to Freidrich Elias Meyer or his younger brother, Wilhelm Christian, see Dorothee Heim, Die Berliner Porzellanplastik und ihre skulpturale Dimension 1751-1825 (2016), p. 250.

Additional information

Bid now on these items