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Figure en porcelaine blanche représentant un cuirassier à cheval, Meissen, circa 1937-1948 A Meissen white figure of a Cuirassier on horseback, circa 1937-1948Modelled by Paul Scheurich saluting, the leaping horse on an oval base with tree-stump support 47.3cm high; 41cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to side of base, incised model number A 1268, impressed former's number 59, crossed swords mark and 'Weiss', paste code 118/ LW 75/ P/ =FootnotesProvenance: Private Collection, Saxony Literature: Rafael 1995a, ill. 55.3 Exhibited: Meissen, Schauhalle der Staatlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Paul Scheurich 1883-1945 Porzellane für die Meissener Manufaktur, 21 September 1995-10 January 1996; Meissen, Museum der Meissen Porzellan-Stiftung, Paul Scheurich Porzellangestalter Zeichner Grafiker, 6 March 2020-21 February 2021 Probably modelled by Scheurich in 1936; in an amusing drawing in a friend's guestbook of February 1937, Scheurich depicts himself as the cuirassier on horseback (Rafael 1995a, ill. 55.1). The manufactory purchased the model early in 1937; it was produced in porcelain from May and several were sold the same year. It was exhibited the following year at the Hetjens-Museum, among others, and a total of 31 sales are recorded by 1956.