A MEISSEN GROUP OF LOVERS after the model by J. J. Kändler, formed as a young woman wearing a lilac-trimmed flowered white dress with broad skirts and black and gilt corsage, seated in a high-backed blue, white and gilt chair beside a marble-topped table, her companion stooping in an exaggerated bow beside her, on a grassy oval base modelled with a small pug-dog (small chips to hem of his coat, his little finger on left hand lacking and minute chip to his hat, chips to applied leaves on base), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 143, incised 551., circa 1880