Apollo depicted on the top, victorious against the dragon Python and the embodiment of Envy, both lying slain at his feet, in the background a small genius, holding a laurel wreath and palm branch of peace over Apollo, on the left Minerva, goddess of the art of war, depicted in helmet and armour, holding a spear in the right hand and an olive branch in the left hand, the owl indicating her identity as Pallas Athene, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, rock base with leafwork, curving tiered base with narrow and wide gilt edging, gilt borders and rosettes, height: 39,5 cm, length: 35 cm, minor restorations, Minerva's spear enclosed, Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords 2nd half 19th cent., model no. No 32, former no. 143, gilt painter no. 31, model by Johann Joachim Kändler , March and May 1774 (Ru)

Lit.: Meissen für die Zaren, Porzellan als Mittel sächsisch-russischer Politik im 18. Jh., exhibition catalogue Dresden 2004, p 103, Die allegorischen und mythologischen Figuren und Gruppen der “Großen russischen Bestellung” für die Tsarina Catherine II, p 105, ill. 29; The "Apollo and Python” was part of the "Major Russian Commission" for the furnishing of the pavilions at the Rodelberge in Oranienbaum (Lomonossov). and matches “The Three Fates”.