Two hollow standing figures on angular pedestals. Finely modelled in the round in classical robes, leaning against rocks. Around 1851, the pottery factory founded by Ernst March supplied five figures of the Muses for the round niches of the south terrace, and the atlant for the historic mill in Sanssouci Palace. The figures shown here are based on ancient Roman marble statues that originally represented the daughters of Lycomedes, Arachne and Deidameia, but underwent name changes following Christian Daniel Rauch s supplemented remodelling. The figures of Euterpe and Polyhymnia were first offered in the catalogue of the pottery factory in 1848. Further individual models of the daughters of Lycomedes were created by Johann Karl Friedrich Riese for KPM, and Carl Gotthard Langhans also had casts made at the Academy in 1791 for room furnishings, for example for the ballroom in the Palais Ritz-Lichtenau in Potsdam.品相: Discolouration due to weathering, the figure of Polyhymnia with fine cracquelure. Minor chips to the edges of the plinths and the hands, the attribute of Euterpe defective.