a pair of candelabra, porcelain, each with 3 candle sockets with narrow and wide gilt edging, decorated with leaves heightened with gilt, light turquoise-light purple, palm shaft, the facing side with gilt eagle with spread wings personifying Zeus, in the foreground Ganymede with short staff in the right hand, on the left a dog looking up and on the right a pan flute, Hebe with a goblet of red wine in the right hand, on the left a grapevine, on the right a rosebush and jug, Ganymede and Hebe wearing roses wreaths and garments with similar painted décor, the round base with gilt bead wreath, narrow and wide gilt edging, drapery 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 in Paphos, Cyprus, 3th cent. CE., very rare candelabra (Ru)

Ganymede, Greek mythology, the handsome cupbearer of Zeus, who abducted Ganymede in the form of an eagle to take him to Olympus and become his lover. Ganymede, Trojan prince, son of Tros, founder of Troy; Hebe, Greek mythology, goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera, cupbearer to the gods on Olympus; Lit.: Bergmann, A 1-Z 99, p 234, cat. no. 454, 455; Lit.: cat. Königl. Sächs. Porzellan-Manufaktur zu Meissen, sheet 30;