A MEISSEN GROUP OF PHOEBUS APOLLO IN THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN after an original model by J. J. Kändler, constructed in three sections, the young god seated in glory wearing a purple robe and brandishing a torch, his quiver of arrows beside him and further arrows scattered around, accompanied by a cherub holding a sun emblem and reflector, his shell-moulded chariot drawn in its passage across the sky by four magnificent rearing white horses with 'jewelled' harnesses, the golden darts of Apollo's radiance piercing the billowing clouds, the wheels with spokes of fire, on a stepped irregularly moulded base edged with bands of gadroons, flowerheads and berried laurel (restoration to torch and flames lacking, slight restoration to clouds, small chips on reverse), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 68, incised No. 3, 1875-76,

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF PHOEBUS APOLLO IN THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN after an original model by J. J. Kändler, constructed in three sections, the young god seated in glory wearing a purple robe and brandishing a torch, his quiver of arrows beside him and further arrows scattered around, accompanied by a cherub holding a sun emblem and reflector, his shell-moulded chariot drawn in its passage across the sky by four magnificent rearing white horses with 'jewelled' harnesses, the golden darts of Apollo's radiance piercing the billowing clouds, the wheels with spokes of fire, on a stepped irregularly moulded base edged with bands of gadroons, flowerheads and berried laurel (restoration to torch and flames lacking, slight restoration to clouds, small chips on reverse), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 68, incised No. 3, 1875-76,
11¾in. (30cm.) high, 17½in. (44.5cm.) wide

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The Battenberg family, and thence by descent to the present owner

拍品专文

King Ludwig II of Bavaria comissioned the reproduction of the original 18th Century model. Following a visit to Versailles in 1867, he hallowed his namesake and ancestor, Louis XIV, the Sun King, in the decoration of his villas Schloss Lindershof and Herrenchiemsee. Apollo driving the Sun chariot was painted in the state bed alcove at both residences and, at the latter, the painting originally bore Ludwig's face. Here, an adjoining room was named the Meissen cabinet. In this group, the sun and hunter god is seated in glory, whilst Love bears sun-discs reflecting divine wisdom. Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Barbara Mundt, Nineteenth Century European Porcelain, p. 187, pl. 326