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Wednesday 29 April 2026, 02:30 PM • Milan

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Polychrome porcelain group depicting the Three Fates with Saturn. Meissen, late 19th century.

Estimate

€ 1.500 - 3.000

Sold

€ 5.715

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

38.5 x 36 cm
From a model by Johan Joachim Kaendler of 1774, as part of the “Grand Russian Order”, intended for the decoration of a piece of furniture in the pavilion at the Bobsleigh Hills in the park of the Oranienbaum Palace. The above-mentioned group was intended to augur a long life for Tsarina Catherine II (see U. Pietsch, Meissen for the Czars (2004), cat. no. 174 and pp. 103–125, for a discussion of the gift to Catherine the Great).
Clotho, the spinner, missing her attribute (Lanchesi with the spindle, Atropos with the shears).


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