Classicist, mythological Meissen figurine group. "Castor and Pollux" also titled "The Allegory of Immortality". Biscuit porcelain. On a raised, rectangular plinth, the twin brothers Castor and Pollux, depicted as a nude, standing close together and looking towards the ground, scantily clad with scarves draped loosely around their loins. Their short, curly hair is adorned with laurel wreaths in an antique style. Castor holds a torch in his right hand to extinguish it on an antique altar decorated with sculpted rams' heads and festoons. In his raised left hand he holds another torch behind his back. Pollux, leaning on his brother's shoulder, holds a disc. Behind them a small statue of Isis standing on a pedestal. Designed by Christian Gottfried Jüchtzer, c. 1788 - 1789 after the so-called "Ildefonso Group" from the Villa Ludovisi in Rome (now in the Prado in Madrid), made in marble at the end of the 1st century BC and modelled on the Greek models Praxiteles and Polyklets. Stamped model no. I 77, impressed and underglaze blue sword mark. H. 36 cm. Cf. P. von Spee, Klassizistische Porzellanplastik der Meissener Manufaktur, (diss.), Bonn, 2004, cat. no. 223, p. 379; British Museum, London, inv. no. 2001,0304.1; SKD Skulpturenslg., inv. no. ASN 2379 (plaster cast). A neoclassical mythological porcelain figure group "Castor and Pollux" modelled by Chr. G. Jüchtzer after the "San Ildefonso Group". Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Marcolini. Circa 1789 - 1815.