porcelain, the Electress enthroned on a crowned chair, magnificently dressed with exquisite headdress and necklace, the green shawl held by an agraffe, the bodice set with precious stones, height 40 cm, width 37 cm, depth 29 cm, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, model no. 1251, former no. 100, purple painter no. 56, model by Johann Joachim Kändler 1749 (Ru)

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Brigitte Hamann, The Habsburgs: Maria Josefa, Queen of Poland and Lithuania, Electress of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria, Vienna 8.12.1699-17.11.1757 Dresden, buried in the Court Church of Dresden. Maria Josefa was married to Frederick August, the son of the Polish King Augustus II Elector of Saxony, in 1719. Daughter of Emperor Joseph I (Vienna 1678-1711 Vienna), and Princess Amalie Wilhelmine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Lüneburg 1673-1742 Vienna), married in 1699. After the election of her husband as King of Poland and Lithuania in 1733, she developed an intense political activity. She sought to have her husband elected emperor after the death of Emperor Charles VI in 1740, and once again after the death of Charles VII in 1745. Her influence on her husband's politics diminished significantly when Count Brühl became the king's confidant. She took an active part not only in imperial politics, but also in the deliberations of the Polish imperial diets, surpassed her husband in political skills, and was very religious. She gave birth to 14 children and took great pains to raise them.

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Bergmann 1–3000, p. 20, cat. no. 1021.