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HUGE Kister Scheibe Dresden Victorian Figurine Group
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This is an amazingly detailed and hand painted figural group depicting a young Victorian couple taking a ride on a seat attached to a beautiful horse and being led by another man. They are passing a small set of stairs which you can see behind the walking man's left leg.The lady is wearing a large bonnet with a very well formed porcelain ribbon bow at the top. She is holding a basket of flowers in her lap. Her gentleman friend is holding a closed green umbrella in his left hand and is looking intently at her. The horse has beautiful coloring. The horseman is nicely dressed, including some type of button-up chaps on his legs(I'm sure they called them something else). This is a large and very heavy piece. It measures 13.75" high, 15" wide and 7.5" deep. It looks perfect and you really don't notice the few flaws I could find. The tip only of the woman's left index finger is chipped off. The basket bench has a repair on the rear of the piece which is on the other side of the horse, the reigns were reattached at a break and the horseman's left leg appears to have been cracked or broken lengthwise and glued. All of these are minor, in my opinion, considering the size and complexity of the piece. It is really an impressive display! It is marked on the bottom with the blue crossed line thru S mark of Scheibe-Albach; see company history below. Please see my other beautiful antique German figurines.Germany / Thuringia / Scheibe-Alsbach:
[1] : Porzellanmanufaktur und Pfeifenstummelmalerei Ludwig Oels (1835 until 1839) In 1835 the former accountant Ludwig Oels moved from Blankenhain (Thuringia) to the town of Scheibe and founded a small business for decorating pipe bowls and stems that he purchased as 'blanks' from the town of Breitenbach. On May 30th of the same year he applied to the local sovereign Friedrich Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt for a licence for his business. As he did not get any response at all he simply started production and soon had a workforce of 18 people, but the prince's chamber which also run the forestry commission was not amused and simply refused to supply the business with urgently needed firewood so that Oels was forced to sell the business to Daniel Kämpfe and Friedmann Greiner in July 1839. [2] : Porzellanmanufaktur Kämpfe & Greiner (1839 until 1844) Kämpfe and Greiner had the same problems of not receiving firewood even after the license applied for by Oels was finally granted in 1840. The company had in the meantime employed another 30 workers but as the firewood problem could not be solved, the facility was sold to a Mr. Dressel (Eisfeld) and Johann Friedrich Andreas Kister (Großbreitenbach). [3] : Porzellanmanufaktur Dressel, Kister & Co. (1844 until 1863) Dressel and Kister had more luck and finally got a concession for firewood supplies and started producing small items like pipe bowls, walking stick handles and dolls' heads. In 1847 the workforce had already increased to 148 people. Supplies were no problem as the kaolin and sand used came from the nearby Steinheid area. By 1857 the company was very well known as the first Thuringian factory which made figures on a larger scale, beginning with devotional items like madonnas and gravestone decorations and then figures in Rococo and Biedermeier styles. From 1860 onwards the product range was slowly enlarged with busts of famous poets and composers as well as animals and animal groups. [4] : Porzellanmanufaktur A.W.F. Kister (1863 until 1905) In 1863 the son of Johann Kister with the name of August Wilhelm Fridolin Kister became proprietor of the factory. To further improve the product range he employed a teacher of the arts school in Sonneberg, Professor Reinhard Möller as leader of the modelling department in 1877. From 1890 onwards, the factory started to make new groups like female dancers, dancing couples and centrepieces and during 1894 the factory also introduced figures in old Meissen styles, like lace figures as well as historical figures and groups. [5] : Porzellanmanufaktur A.W.F. Kister G.m.b.H. (190... 
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