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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION Late 18th century
After the Vincennes models, she in gilt and iron-red bodice, yellow skirt, gilt-edged puce underskirt and black shoes holding her apron strewn with garden flowers, a gadrooned pot of flowers painted with puce flower-sprays at her side, he in chequered puce, turquoise and iron-red gilt-buttoned jacket, white shirt and pink breeches holding a hat filled with flowers and standing barefoot supported by a tree-stump with a watering can to one side, both on shaped rockwork bases enriched in green and brown and applied with foliage (chipping to extremities, flowers and foliage)
8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) and 9in. (23cm.) high (2)
After the Vincennes models, she in gilt and iron-red bodice, yellow skirt, gilt-edged puce underskirt and black shoes holding her apron strewn with garden flowers, a gadrooned pot of flowers painted with puce flower-sprays at her side, he in chequered puce, turquoise and iron-red gilt-buttoned jacket, white shirt and pink breeches holding a hat filled with flowers and standing barefoot supported by a tree-stump with a watering can to one side, both on shaped rockwork bases enriched in green and brown and applied with foliage (chipping to extremities, flowers and foliage)
8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) and 9in. (23cm.) high (2)