162 - Group of Cupids as an Allegory of Poetry. In the foreground, a gracefully curved, ornamented pedestal. Upon it stands a marbled obelisk draped with ribbons and a laurel wreath, resting on a plinth featuring a relief portrait of Empress Catherine II; Group of three cupids: one as Apollo, bearing a laurel wreath and a lyre; one as a historian, holding a chronicle and a quill; and one as Fama, the personification of fame and rumor, holding a trumpet. Polychrome painting with gold accents. Designed by Michel Victor Acier. Model No. 11. Restored; extremely minimal damage; sword mark. H. 31 cm. W. 21 cm.

Group of Cupids as an Allegory of Poetry. In the foreground, a gracefully curved, ornamented pedestal. Upon it stands a marbled obelisk draped with ribbons and a laurel wreath, resting on a plinth featuring a relief portrait of Empress Catherine II; Group of three cupids: one as Apollo, bearing a laurel wreath and a lyre; one as a historian, holding a chronicle and a quill; and one as Fama, the personification of fame and rumor, holding a trumpet. Polychrome painting with gold accents. Designed by Michel Victor Acier. Model No. 11. Restored; extremely minimal damage; sword mark. H. 31 cm. W. 21 cm. A cast of a figure group designed by Acier in 1774 as part of the so-called “Great Russian Order” for Tsarina Catherine II of Russia, known as Catherine the Great. See Pietsch, Cat. Meissen for the Tsars, No. 189. An allegorical porcelain figure group from the “Great Russian Order” commissioned by Tsarina Catherine the Great. Very minor chipping. Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1900.