A large Meissen armorial allegorical river god group 19th century, marked with large underglaze blue crossed swords, Pressnummern 235 and 121 Inspired by an original model by J.J. Kändler, gilt and painted in colours, naturalistically modelled in relief as a seated bearded man wearing a purple flowered garment, holding a cornucopia overflowing with coins, flowers, etc., resting with his right arm on a bulbous vase adorned with the Polish-Saxon coat of arms of August the Strong, a stream of water with various fish and shells flowing from it, upon a shaped shell- and leaf-encrusted rocky base with meandering fretwork border 32cm high
A large Meissen armorial allegorical river god group 19th century, marked with large underglaze blue crossed swords, Pressnummern 235 and 121 Inspired by an original model by J.J. Kändler, gilt and painted in colours, naturalistically modelled in relief as a seated bearded man wearing a purple flowered garment, holding a cornucopia overflowing with coins, flowers, etc., resting with his right arm on a bulbous vase adorned with the Polish-Saxon coat of arms of August the Strong, a stream of water with various fish and shells flowing from it, upon a shaped shell- and leaf-encrusted rocky base with meandering fretwork border 32cm high
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