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A PORCELAIN EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF EMPRESS ELIZABETH I ON HORSEBACK
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A PORCELAIN EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF EMPRESS ELIZABETH I ON HORSEBACK

MEISSEN, GERMANY, CIRCA 1750

Fermé16 April 2012

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A PORCELAIN EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF EMPRESS ELIZABETH I ON HORSEBACK
MEISSEN, GERMANY, CIRCA 1750
Modeled by J.J. Kändler, on an oval base applied with flowers and foliage, the Empress on a rearing horse with a blackamoor in attendance, in a lilac uniform with a gilt badge of an Order, holding a baton in her right hand, the man wearing a plumed turban, yellow jacket and breeches, the horse supported below by a tree-stump, marked on base with blue crossed swords
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high

Note du spécialiste

The present lot was modeled after Portrait of Tsarina Elisabeth Petrovna on horse by Georg Christoph Grooth (1716-1749), currently held in the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow.

See the von Pannwitz example, sold by Helbing, Munich, on October 24-25, 1905, lot 375, pl. LXXXVI, which was described as a portrait of Augustus III. Another example from the Klemperer collection lacks the moorish attendant; see L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden, 1928, pl. 65, no. 614.

For a different version of this model, see Christie's, London, February 21, 2005, lot 103; for a later version, see Christie's, New York, April 9, 2008, lot 248.