A MEISSEN FIGURE ALLEGORICAL OF TASTE from a set of the Senses, modelled as a girl wearing striped and flowered dress seated beside a table laden with a bottle of wine, pastries and a bowl of fruit, on a shaped-rectangular base moulded with pink and gilt lozenges (left arm lacking, chip to base, flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 43, incised E 2. painted number 84, 4¾in. (12.3cm.) high; and a salt modelled as a young man wearing a flowered yellow coat reclining beside a shallow shaped-oval dish applied with flowers (left arm and bowl damaged and repaired, chips to flowers), blue crossed swords mark, incised 2872, painted number 2, 6¾in. (17.2cm.) wide, both circa 1880 (2)

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A MEISSEN FIGURE ALLEGORICAL OF TASTE from a set of the Senses, modelled as a girl wearing striped and flowered dress seated beside a table laden with a bottle of wine, pastries and a bowl of fruit, on a shaped-rectangular base moulded with pink and gilt lozenges (left arm lacking, chip to base, flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 43, incised E 2. painted number 84, 4¾in. (12.3cm.) high; and a salt modelled as a young man wearing a flowered yellow coat reclining beside a shallow shaped-oval dish applied with flowers (left arm and bowl damaged and repaired, chips to flowers), blue crossed swords mark, incised 2872, painted number 2, 6¾in. (17.2cm.) wide, both circa 1880 (2)

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