A MEISSEN WHITE FIGURE OF HERCULES modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, the muscular bearded god turned slightly to the left and scantily draped in a lion's skin its head forming a stylish epaulette, his club in his right hand and resting at his feet, on a scroll and foliage-moulded spreading square pedestal moulded with musical trophies above a stepped base (some minute chipping and glaze blemishes), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1750