Beschreibung:

A set of four Meissen Large Figures of 'The Seasons' Mounted in Ormolu and Tôle Peinte as Five-Light Candelabra the figures modelled probably by Johann Friedrich Eberlein circa 1745 'Spring' as a maiden wearing a puce-lined turquoise drapery and a décolleté white robe patterned with gilt sprigs, with two daffodils in her left hand, her right hand resting on an oval basket of colorful flowers borne on the head of a putto walking beside her; 'Summer' as a maiden with tan wheat ears in her hair and a yellow-lined white drapery patterned with colorful indianische Blumen and gilt foliate sprigs, with wheatears and an oxidized silver sickle in her right hand, her left hand above a sheaf of wheat borne by a putto at her side; 'Autumn' as Bacchus with wreaths of blue and turquoise grapes and green leaves around his head and hips, holding further bunches of grapes and leaning against a vine-entwined tree stump beside a young satyr seated on a white and tan keg and drinking from a goblet; 'Winter' as a bearded man loosely cloaked in a fur-lined blue mantle incised with foliate sprigs and standing between a flaming brazier and a putto splitting logs; fitted at the back with a tôle peinte five-branch tree fitted with an assortment of predominantly soft-paste porcelain blossoms, and ending in leaf-cast drip pans and candle nozzles; raised on a later ormolu scrollwork base bearing the Crowned C mark. height of figures 9 7/8 in. to 10 1/2 in.; overall 16 in. 25 cm to 26 cm; overall 41 cm