Meissen Porcelain Figural Group of Boreas and Oreithyia. Modeled depicting the deity, nude save a violet lion cloth, carrying the distraught female figure with her arms and legs flaying, his arm tightly around his unwilling intended and draped in a yellow multicolored flower cloth, standing before tree trunk, the rocky rounded base with green and rose vegetation, the base with blue crossed swords, inscribed #990, impressed #52, painted "7". Early 20th Century. Height 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm) [Losses to hand, tree stump] In Greek mythology, Boreas, personification of Winter, kidnapped Oreithyia, the daughter of a king of Athens, with the intention of marrying her against her will.