Groups of figures symbolize the reign and policies of Catherine the Great.

"Victoria I" from the "Great Russian Order" for Empress Catherine II. The human side of the curved base, surrounded by relief ornamentation, with a fully sculpted group embodying the allegory of victory. Rising among numerous military trophies, entwined with a tree trunk adorned with intricate armor and a large plumed helmet, are banners, quivers, fasces, a sword, a matutinal star, and a cannon barrel with gun implements as attributes of war.

Below lie field drums and a book. On the left sits Clio, the muse of history, in a pink floral dress holding a book, a quill, and a trumpet in her hands; on the right sits a putto adorning the cannon with a laurel wreath. Polychrome painting is combined with rich gold decoration. Likely executed by Johann Joachim Kändler in 1773. Possibly restored, with a sword mark indicated. Height 34 cm, 26 cm x 15 cm. A model presentation from the so-called "Great Russian Order" of Empress Catherine II, which she commissioned for the Imperial Palace in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov) near St. Petersburg. The copy "Victoria II" features the seated war goddess Minerva with accompanying owl attributes. The symbolic meaning of both groups is already clearly reflected in Kändler's titles in his reports from April 1773, where he calls them "Victoria I and II" or "The Victory of the Russian Empress."

The figure groups symbolize the reign and policies of Catherine the Great. The late 18th-century design is in the Dresden State Art Collections (inventory number P.E. 402). See Petch, Catalog of Meissen for the Tsars, No. 175F, p. 115f. A rare early allegorical porcelain figure group "Victoria I," made by J. J. Kändler in 1772, originally part of the "Great Russian Order" for Tsarina Catherine II of Russia, nicknamed "the Great." Slightly restored. Mark of crossed swords. Meissen. Circa 1773.