Frontal, passive, curved base with relief-decorated wave and oak leaf border. Above rocky terrain, a magnificent table with a celestial globe composed a group of three amorini reading, observing with a telescope, and drawing star constellations. Polychrome painting with gold staffage. Possibly by Michel Victor Acier. Model number 9. Unidentified restoration; crossed swords mark. Height 19.5 cm. An adaptation of a figure group designed by Acier in 1774 for the so-called "Great Russian Order" for Empress Catherine II of Russia, known as Catherine the Great. See Pietzsch, Kat. Meissen for the Tsars, number 191. An allegorical porcelain figure group of astronomy for the "Great Russian Order" of Catherine the Great. Insignificantly restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 2nd half of the 19th century.