Details
Each female modeled holding their continent's respective attributes, Europe riding a horse and America an alligator
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm) high, Europe
Provenance
With the Antique Porcelain Company, New York, 1959 (America).
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Lot Essay

Compare the four Continents in the Pauls Collection, Basel, see P.W. Meister and H. Reber, European Porcelain of the 18th Century, Oxford, 1983, p. 163, nos. 278 & 290. Also compare the four from the Nelson Rockefeller collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 11 April 1980, lot 194 and those illustrated by. Y. Adams, Meissen Figures, 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period, Atglen, 2001, pp, 182-3, nos. 491-4. For a set of the same models on ormolu bases, see Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2007, lot 269.

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