Rare model based on ballet first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Berlin in December 1912. It is likely that Scheurich saw one of the performances at the time, but it is unknown why he created a porcelain group based on the ballet 18 years later in April 1930. A sketch for the model has survived and was published in the magazine ‘Sport im Bild’, 37/14 (1931). The first example was formed in October 1930 and then fired and painted shortly thereafter. However, for an unknown reason the group was not included in the selling catalogues of the manufactory and only in 1943 were three white examples noted as sold.
Model Number: A 1225
Height: 10″
Modeled c.1930 by Paul Scheurich