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Rare groupe en porcelaine blanche figurant Nésus et Déjanire, Berlin (KPM), circa 1953 A rare Berlin (KPM) white group of Nessus and Deianeira, circa 1953Modelled by Paul Scheurich on a rectangular base with rounded ends, incised signature 'SCHEURICH' to top edge of base, 72cm high; 55cm across sceptre mark in blue, impressed Ψ/ St/ 9 (one finger of Nessus' left hand restored)FootnotesLiterature: Rafael 2013, pp. 170–171 Exhibited: Meissen, Museum der Meissen Porzellan-Stiftung, Paul Scheurich Porzellangestalter Zeichner Grafiker, 6 March 2020-21 February 2021 Paul Scheurich became ill again in October 1940 and, as he had done at Meissen in the 1920s during another illness, Max Adolf Pfeiffer purchased several older models by Scheurich: the present group, Mars and Venus and Shepherd and Nymph. It isn't recorded when Scheurich modelled this group, though in Autumn 1938 a bronze example was exhibited at the Verein Berliner Künstler (titled 'Chiron und Venus'), and the following year a bronze was sold at the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung in Munich (this time titled 'Chiron und Helena'). The model was produced for the first time in porcelain in January 1941 (when it was listed as 'Centaur mit Nymphe'), and first published in March 1942 by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld in the periodical 'Die Kunst', where it was described as the abduction of Deianeira by the centaur Nessus. Saleroom noticesPlease note, the ring finger on his left hand is missing and not restored as noted in the catalogue.