Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, wearing a plumed helmet with a laurel wreath, long cloak over armour and a skirt and sandals, holding a scroll-edged shield moulded with the mask of Medusa in her left hand, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 41.8cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base (left arm reattached at elbow, left edge of base damaged, chips to fingers on right hand and toes on right foot)
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Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 11 October 1993, lot 183Literature:M. Cassidy-Geiger, Hof-Conditorei and Court Celebrations in 18th century Dresden, in Handbook of the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London (2002), n. 28;R. Roos (ed.), Meissen SO-IL, exhibition catalogue. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2011), pp. 52f.Exhibited:Amersfoort, Kunsthal KAdE, 'Meissen SO-IL', 28 May-28 August 2011Kaendler's work records for April 1747 include: 'Das Bild, die G?ttin Minerva im Modell zertheilet u.z. abformen eingerichtet' [the portrait of the Goddess Minerva cut into sections and prepared for moulding]. The figure appears to have belonged to the porcelain table fountain ('Cascade') made for the celebrations of the 'double' weddings in 1747 between Saxony and Bavaria. A coloured example of this figure is mounted on top of the large Meissen temple at Longleat, Wiltshire: see P. Ferguson, Felbrigg's Folly The Meissen 'Temple of Honour' in Dresden, in Apollo, suppl. Historic Houses and Collections Annual (2010), pp. 13f.; the temple is illustrated by H. Tait, Porcelain (1962), col. pl. XXXIV.