Frontal, passive, curved base with reliefed wave band and oak leaf borders. Composed group of three cupids with hammer and chisel, pencil and sketching board, or with the so-called torso of Belvedere. In the middle, a standing sculptor's easel with tools and a bust of the laurel-crowned Tsarina Catherine II of Russia. Polychrome painting with rich gold decoration. Possibly by Michel Victor Acier. Model number 4. Restored; minor damage. Sword mark. Height 20 cm. Represents a figure group designed by Acier in 1774 for the so-called "Great Russian Order" for Tsarina Catherine II of Russia, named Catherine the Great, for Oranienbaum Palace. See Pietzsch, Catalogue Meissen for the Tsars, number 188. An allegorical porcelain figure group of Cupid representing the art of sculpture for the "Great Russian Order" of Catherine the Great. Restored. Minor chipped. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Second half of the 19th century.