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Meissen porcelain group depicting Apollo playing the lyre* seated with his back to a tree, the dead python at his feet, bow and quiver of arrows to his left. Model by J.J. Kandler from 1747.
Blue mark with two crossed swords under the base.
Circa 1750, mid-18th century.
Height: 28 cm; Width: 15 cm.
One branch of the tree and a few leaves have been reattached and some chips have been repaired at the ends.
* Muse from the series “Apollo and the Nine Muses” created for Frederick II the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia (1740-1786).
See Y. Adams, Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kandler Period, Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2001, no. 360, p. 130.
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