A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A YOUNG FAUN SEATED ASTRIDE A PANTHER, the animal standing to the left wearing a gold-tasselled blue saddle-cloth and with his rider wearing a swirling spotted pink drape, smiling as he bangs a drum, on an oval grassy base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (restoration to faun's legs and to right drum-stick, slight wear to paint, chip to pink drape), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumern D 56, 125 and 70, circa 1890