A pair of Meissen figures of a shepherd and companion

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A pair of Meissen figures of a shepherd and companion
modelled seated, he wearing a plumed hat, jacket, flowered waistcoat and breeches, playing a mandoline with a hound at his feet, she wearing a pink bodice and apron above yellow skirts, holding a spray of flowers, a sheep tied by a blue ribbon standing at her feet, on round scroll-moulded bases applied with flowers, blue crossed swords marks, circa 1765 (some losses, restoration and replacements) -- 20cm. high
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Provenance

Sir Ernest Cassel Collection, nos. 128 and 153.

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Lot Essay

Cf. Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II & Rainer Rückert, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (1979), pp. 462-3, no. 309 for the shepherd attributed the modeller C. C. Punct; also see the figure of a shepherdess from the Hans Syz Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1997, lot 536.

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