A VIENNA PAIR OF COOKS modelled by J.J. Niedermeyer, he in a peaked white cap, puce-striped cravat, puce waistcoat, white shirt, dark-red breeches and long white apron, slightly turned to his left and holding three quails on a spit, a knife at his waist, standing beside a stove with a chicken in a dish and a pan with patisseries below, she in a white cap, black choker with a gilt pendant, yellow scarf, pale-pink bodice, pale-green skirt and black apron with a chatelain at her waist, standing beside a nest of drawers making a game pie, both on shaped white bases (he with restoration to tip of spit and dagger, his left little finger lacking, chip to one leg of chicken and end of scewer, she with a restored replacement left hand, restoration to spoon and underside of slab, chip to corner of slab), blue beehive marks, incised E to both for the repairer Joseph Gwanther, circa 1760