porcelain, each with 3 sockets with narrow and wide gilt edging, light turquoise, leaves heightened with light purple-gilt, palm shaft, the facing side with gilt eagle with spread wings personifying Zeus, in the foreground Ganymed with short rod in the right hand, on the left a dog looking up and a syrinx on the left, Hebe, in the right hand a goblet filled with red wine, on the left a grapevine, on the right a rosebush and jug, Ganymed and Hebe wearing rose wreathes, and similarly painted garments, the round base with a wreath of gilt beads, narrow and wide gilt edging, cloth festoons heightened with gilt, buttons and rosettes, Height: 35,5 cm, minor restorations, Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords 2nd half 19th cent., model no. K 49, 50, former no. 28, 28, gilt painter no. 8, 8, model by Johann Daniel Schöne 1793, based on a mosaic in a Roman villa at Paphos Cyprus, 3th cent. BCE., very rare candelabra (Ru)

Ganymede (Greek mythology), handsome cupbearer of Zeus who abducts him in the shape of an eagle. Ganymede, Trojan prince, founder of Troy; Hebe, goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera, cupbearer to the Olympian gods.

Lit.:
Bergmann, A 1-Z 99, p 234 cat. no. 454, 455;
Lit.:
Katalog Königl. Sächs. Porzellan-Manufaktur zu Meissen, sheet 30;