Dresden. Antique porcelain figurine. Officer of the Royal Guard

Antique porcelain figurine.
Officer of the Royal Coldstream Guards.
Saxon porcelain manufactory in Dresden.
Of the numerous European porcelain factories that produced military figurines in the 19th and 20th centuries, Sachsische Porzellan Manufaktur Dresden (Dresden Factory) stands out as the best manufacturer in terms of sculpture and painting.
Age 1902 - 1918.
Dimensions h 31 cm.
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The factory was founded in 1872 by Karl Thime, an antiques dealer and porcelain seller who hired porcelain workers from the bankrupt Buxdorf manufactory.. By the 1890s, it was under the management of Karl August Kuntsch, a talented modeler and employee of the Thime family. Kunch brought the factory's products to foreign markets, and it was under him in 1912 that the production of military figures began with a series of French Napoleonic objects, the first of which was an equestrian figure of Napoleon (an example of which can be seen in the former home of Winston Churchill, Chartwell in Kent). However, due to the antipathy between France and Germany that arose due to the war of 1870, these early products were often marked at the bottom with the signature of the French imperial factory in Sevres. presumably at the insistence of French retailers to hide their German origin. A number of Italian historical and military figures followed in 1913.

Between 1912 and 1914, with the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approaching, London retailer Thomas Goode & Co. of Mayfair planned to offer a series of figurines representing British regiments of Wellington's Allied Army. Some of these specially marked and now rare figurines were imported from Saxony to England before the Waterloo Centenary, but with the outbreak of war in August 1914, Goode and other retailers took steps to conceal the German origin of these figurines by covering them up. Signs of the Dresden factory or attributing them to English porcelain manufacturers, such as the Copeland Spode ceramic manufacturer, which at that time produced a parallel, albeit slightly lower series of British figurines.