A MEISSEN GROUP OF 'GRANDMOTHER'S BIRTHDAY', modelled as woman seated wearing 18th Century-style morning dress, in a high-backed pink-upholstered chair beside a circular tripod table laden with coffee, holding a sealed letter in her right hand and smiling as she pats the head of her young grand-child standing offering two roses, on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (chips to base, roses restored, minute chips to ribbon at child's waist), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 68, incised M 184, painted number 29, circa 1880