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Lot 603
Sale 5473 - European Furniture & Decorative Arts
Apr 30, 2008
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$25,000 -
35,000
Price Realized
$18,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Impressive group of Meissen porcelain figures of Muses late 19th century
Each female figure modeled with their appropriate attributes: Urania seated on a celestial globe looking through a telescope and holding a compass; Clio seated next to a shield and helmet with an open book and stylus; Euterpe seated and playing a flute; Polyhymnia holding an open book and covering her face with her hand; and Calliope reciting poetry from sheets of parchment, all modeled draped in flower decorated robes with gilt details on scrolling rococo bases, blue underglazed crossed swords marks. (5).
Tallest H: 19 in.