Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 1 cut through, model by Michel Victor Acier 1774, a sleeping woman sitting at a high table with her shoes off, wearing a letter in her bodice, base with relief plastering, polychrome painted, gold rim on base, rest., model no . E 58, slightly rest., H approx. 19.5 cm, 19th century "Acier subjected his genre figures to a new sense of form by presenting them in an intimate, domestic atmosphere, emphasized here by the bare feet. The narrative moment occurs here in the foreground. The love letter gives a lot of hints." (from: Gräfin von Spee, The Classicist Porcelain Sculpture of the Meissen Manufactory from 1764 to 1814, Cat. No. 35)
