A PAIR OF LARGE MEISSEN FIGURES OF A BAGPIPER AND A HURDY-GURDY PLAYER modelled by J.J. Kändler, he in black hat, blue jacket with gilt buttons, tattered yellow breeches and black shoes, his companion in white scarf and apron, pale-brown dress and black shoes, playing their instruments and standing on scroll-moulded mound bases enriched with gilding (restoration to hands, edge of his hat, her left arm at elbow, neck of hurdy-gurdy, slight restoration to edge of clothes, his right cuff damaged, crack to her skirt below apron, minor chips to foliage), blue crossed swords marks at back, he incised 1351., circa 1750, he perhaps decorated slightly later