Underglaze blue factory mark. Incribed mark O 126. X. Impressed mark 121 ¤. After a model by Emmerich Andresen, around 1890. The three fates depicted standing on a cloud formation above a rainbow. Height 42 cm. Width 40 cm.
Damages, repair.
Property of a private Swedish collector.
Compare with a similar piece sold at Christies, lot no 27, Live Auction 1426, New York, 26 Oct 2004.
See Dr K. Berling, Ed, Meissen China an Illustrated History, New York, 1972, fig. 256, p. 100.
Emmerich Andresen is recorded at the Meissen factory as a sculptor and manager of modelling, 1886-1902.
The neo-rococo taste, modelled as three scantely draped beauties spinning and measuring the thread of life, embracing above a rainbow and clouds.