Tsarina Catherine the Great

Lot 3973 limit € 5.500

Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 1st choice, model Johann Joachim Kaendler around 1768-70, model no. C 92, Catherine II in uniform on horseback in the mansion with drawn saber, oval rocaille base with tree support, colored painting, gold decoration, restored, H approx. 26 cm, pommel swords end of the 19th century; In the course of the 18th century, the Meissner manufactory produced large quantities of figurines and tableware for the Russian Tsar's court as gifts or to order. The depiction of Tsarina Catherine II goes back to a portrait made by the painter Virgilius Eriksen in 1762, in which she wears the uniform of the Semyonovsky regiment.