A MEISSEN GROUP OF EUROPA AND THE BULL, painted outside the factory, the animal standing to the right, having its horns adorned with garlands of flowers by the seated maiden, her hair clasped with a blue band adorned with roses and wearing a pink drape enriched in gilding, flanked by two kneeling maidens wearing flowered robes and proffering roses taken from an oval basket, on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (bull's tail lacking, chip to foot of one maiden, chips to flowers), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumern 52, 2697 and 51, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF EUROPA AND THE BULL, painted outside the factory, the animal standing to the right, having its horns adorned with garlands of flowers by the seated maiden, her hair clasped with a blue band adorned with roses and wearing a pink drape enriched in gilding, flanked by two kneeling maidens wearing flowered robes and proffering roses taken from an oval basket, on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (bull's tail lacking, chip to foot of one maiden, chips to flowers), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumern 52, 2697 and 51, circa 1880
8¼in. (21cm.) high

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