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SILVER Seller in Torino, Italy
The group consists of a donkey and four figures standing on an oval rocailles base highlighted in gold. Riding on the donkey Silenus, crowned with a vine branch with bunches of grapes, is Bacchus, while a female figure with a basket of grapes is seated on the vine. On the back we find a putto. The same model is kept in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum and is published by A.L.den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, 2000, no. 335. Other specimens can be found for example in: Naples, Museo Duca di Martina and Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; St. Petersburg, Hermitage; Washington, National Museum of History and Technology (see AA.VV., Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection, 1979, no. 283).
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