A THURINGIAN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF MINERVA, PERHAPS WALLENDORF, CIRCA 1770 |

modelled standing wearing Roman armour holding her Medusa-mask shield at her left side, on a puce-scroll edged base,

In overall good appearance. Her right thumb restored and the raised crest of her helmet re-stuck at its terminals.
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See Christophe Fritzsche, 'Thüringer Porzellanfiguren des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Sammlung Yvonne und Ludwig Ehmann, Basel', Mitteilungsblatt der Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, No 116/117, 2003, pp. 131-137 for a rare series of figures representing the Gods in the white, which shows another example of this rare model, where they are attributed to Wallendorf.