Great Cupid

Lot 4271 limit € 1.900

Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 1st choice, design by Heinrich Schwabe 1880-82, model no. M 113, Cupid with basket, natural base with tree support, colored painting, gold staffage, restored, H approx. 29 cm, pommel swords around/make 1882; Heinrich Schwabe (1847-1924), sculptor, studied at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts, 1875-1907 professor ibid., the Meissner manufactory acquired a total of 48 models, busts, cupids, children and genre figures created by him by 1899