
Sophie von der Goltz
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Modelled by Kaendler in November 1772 as part of the "Great Russian Order" intended for the decoration of a cabinet in the Pavilion near the Bobsleigh Hills in the park of Oranienbaum Palace; Amphitrite was intended to allude to Catherine the Great. See U. Pietsch, Meissen for the Czars (2004), pp. 103-125, for a discussion of the gift to Catherine the Great.