A MEISSEN GROUP OF LOVERS KISSING after an original model by J. J. Kändler, he wearing a white coat, green waistcoat and black breeches, she wearing a white bonnet, pale-pink dress painted with indianische Blumen and with iron-red cuffs and a yellow underskirt, on a white oval base applied with flowerheads and leaves (his left thumb lacking, chips to flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 147, incised 518, painted number 69, circa 1880; and two small Meissen figures of children wearing striped and flowered dress, she with an apron of grapes, he holding a basket of flowers and feeding a dog, on square bases with gilt line rims (chips to flowers, leaves and edges of clothes), blue crossed swords marks and incised and painted numbers, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF LOVERS KISSING after an original model by J. J. Kändler, he wearing a white coat, green waistcoat and black breeches, she wearing a white bonnet, pale-pink dress painted with indianische Blumen and with iron-red cuffs and a yellow underskirt, on a white oval base applied with flowerheads and leaves (his left thumb lacking, chips to flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 147, incised 518, painted number 69, circa 1880; and two small Meissen figures of children wearing striped and flowered dress, she with an apron of grapes, he holding a basket of flowers and feeding a dog, on square bases with gilt line rims (chips to flowers, leaves and edges of clothes), blue crossed swords marks and incised and painted numbers, circa 1880
8¼in. (21cm.) high
4in. (10cm.) high (3)

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See footnote for lot 128. See p. ??? for the illustration of the two small figures

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