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Lot 219

A Meissen Group of 'School for Love', second half 19th century

7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen Group of 'School for Love', second half 19th century

After the model by M.V. Acier and J.C. Schönheit of 1777, depicting Cupid in the centre standing on a pedestal and inscribing a book on a stand on a pedestal applied with flower swags, attended by a lady kneeling behind him and five figures of young women and children seated around the rocky base, 29cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue above three incised marks, incised model number F.74, impressed numeral (Cupid's right arm restuck, left hand and forearm of one figure at back of base restored)

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See T.H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures, Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz 103 (1988), no. 79, for the entries in Acier's work records relating to the group.

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