Lot 64
  • 64

A Meissen Marcolini figure group, Marcolini period, circa 1780

Estimate
1,000 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • porcelain
  • 27.8cm., 11 in. high
modelled by M.V. Acier and J.C. Schönheit, as three children playing before a female Herm on a rockwork base edged with a moulded band border, crossed swords and star mark in underglaze-blue, impressed model number G 32, incised mark,

Literature

West Horsley Place, Surrey, Inventory, 1938, Vol. 1, p.5, in the Morning Room; An 11” high Dresden coloured porcelain Group of 3 Children playing with white statue in background. £13-0-0.;
‘West Horsley Place II’, Country Life, 1 April 1939, p. 329, illustrated on the chimneypiece in the Morning Room.

Condition

There is a hairline crack to the foot, and some chips to extremities. The column has been bolted to the base
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