DIANA OR VENUS ON A ROCK

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1780
H. 17 cm
From a centrepiece for Prince Eugene of Saxe-Hildburghausen (?), model Johann Friedrich Franz Kotta, without mark. Right forearm missing. Min. rest.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Inventory of moulds August 1770, Döll: a Diana seated on a rock; January 1777, Kotta: a Diana seated on a rock
Diana or Venus is the centre of a centrepiece and points with an outstretched index finger at one of the satyrs or cupids surrounding her. Comparable pieces in the Thür. Museum Eisenach and in the Angermuseum Erfurt.
Literature: Sattler 1993, no. 29