Allegory of Poetry, mark 1740-1780, from a series... Lot 2670

Allegory of Poetry, mark 1740-1780, from a series of 40 groups for Empress Catherine II, designed by Michael Victor Acier 1773-1775, on an irregular base next to a pedestal with medallion Catherine the Great, standing putto with lyre and seated putto writing in a book with a pen, behind him a floating cupid as inspiration, white, firing cracks, h. 22 cm, ref.: Bergmann, Meissener Figuren, vol. II/3, p. 132, ill. 3380.