ELEVEN FIGURES FROM A SERIES OF GOD AND GODESSES

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1766/70
H. 19-21,5 cm
Jupiter, Venus with Cupid, Mars, Minerva, Vulcanus, Hercules, Mercury, Bacchus, Aeolus, Diana, Proserpina. Models by Wenzel Neu, Friedrich Wilhelm E. Döll, Ludwig Daniel Heyd. Square plinths. Venus with CV mark in underglaze blue and incised marks, the other figures without mark. Partly damaged, losses, slight to heavy restorations.
Jan Ahlers Collection
The series consists of a total of 16 figures. The inventory of forms from 1766 and 1767 includes various gods by Heyd, Döll and Ney (Neu). For Jupiter, compare a stone sculpture in the Weikersheim palace park, where the founder of the manufactory, Prince Eugene, often stayed. Markus W. Peters, Thuringian Porcelain of the XVIII Century from Veilsdorf Monastery, Volkstedt, Wallendorf and Limbach, figs. 40, 41, 45, 46.