"The Winner of Olympia". Original title: Oval base with reliefed meander border. Seated on a rock, a young woman as a half-nude, presumably the goddess of victory, Victoria, dressed in a pink, gold-bordered cloth. The finely drawn, curly hair is artfully styled in an antique manner. In her raised left hand, she holds a laurel wreath in honor of a victory. Seated to her right, an athletic fist fighter with a blue loincloth and leather straps on his left hand, depicted in the moment after the victorious battle of Olympia. Possibly inspired by Emmerich Andresen, around 1889-1890. Model number O 179. Restored; sword mark. Height 42 cm. Perhaps Emmerich Andresen (1843-1902) was inspired by the Olympian Games held in Athens in 1888/1889. The sculptor, trained in Hamburg and Dresden under Ernst Gottfried Vivé and Ernst Hähnel, was appointed in 1886 as the head of the design department of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory. His allegorical porcelain figures are characterized by a classical-academic style and exhibit the stylistic features of large-scale sculpture. See Jedding, Meissen Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, p. 141; Thieme-Becker, Vol. I, p. 481. A large rare early 20th century porcelain figure group titled "The Winner of Olympia". Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Early 20th century.