A MEISSEN GROUP OF A SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK, the shepherd standing beside a tree playing his recorder, wearing a puce hat with plumes, buff fur-lined jacket, turquoise breeches and black shoes, his mournful, brown and white dog sitting beside him before four sheep, sitting and standing watching two rams fighting and a goat scratching itself against the tree, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (restoration to his right little finger, tip of recorder, bows, horns of rams, ears of sheep and rams, nose of front sheep, one ear of goat, flowers and leaves, hairline crack to base and tree-stump, chip to underside of base), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1755