Lot no. 517
Complete series of allegorical figures of the "Five Senses" by Meissen
5-piece; Young women in antique-style robes standing on rocaille-relief plinths, accompanied by putti or animals and with the addition of various attributes. The lute-playing personification of Hearing with sheet music and French horn, flanked by a recumbent stag and of Sight with telescope, mirror, spectacles and accompanying eagle. The personification of taste with apples and grapes, flanked by a monkey helping itself from a filled fruit bowl, and leaning against a column the standing personification of smell with a rose bush and blossoms as well as a potpourri vessel and the allegory of feeling with a parrot, a pair of putti and a dog. Polychrome painting with rich gold decoration. Designed by Johann Friedrich Eberlein. Model no. 1035, 1042, 1051, 1062, 1136. minor rest and wear; some firing cracks. Centreboard mark. H. 27 cm - 28 cm.
Cf. cat. Royal Saxon. Porzellan-Manufactur zu Meissen, 1904, sheet 6.
A complete series of five allegorical porcelain figures from the series "Five senses" modelled by J. F. Eberlein. Insignificantly restored and chipped. Partly firing cracks. Crossed swords mark.
Meissen. 2nd half 19th cent.
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