A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION after original models by M. V. Acier and J. C. Schoenheit, wearing striped and flowered dress edged in lace, she with an oval basket of flowers supported in the fold of her overskirt held in her right hand, holding a sickle in her left and with an urn of flowers at her side, he holding a bouquet in his right hand, his left wrist resting on a spade and leaning against a watering-can supported on a tree-stump, on grassy circular bases moulded with a white and gilt fret-pattern (chips to flowers, leaves and lace trimmings, his base with minute chip), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 43 and 44, incised C.68. and C.69., painted numbers 52 and 56, circa 1860-1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION after original models by M. V. Acier and J. C. Schoenheit, wearing striped and flowered dress edged in lace, she with an oval basket of flowers supported in the fold of her overskirt held in her right hand, holding a sickle in her left and with an urn of flowers at her side, he holding a bouquet in his right hand, his left wrist resting on a spade and leaning against a watering-can supported on a tree-stump, on grassy circular bases moulded with a white and gilt fret-pattern (chips to flowers, leaves and lace trimmings, his base with minute chip), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 43 and 44, incised C.68. and C.69., painted numbers 52 and 56, circa 1860-1880
7¾in. (19.6cm.) high (2)

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Cf. T. H. Clarke, op. cit., p. 58, nos. 5 and 6. See also Hermann Jedding, op. cit., p. 79, no. 76. In these examples, the lady is shown holding a bouquet instead of a sickle

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