A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION after the original models by M. V. Acier and J. C. Schoenheit wearing striped and flowered dress, he standing beside a tree-stump holding a twig and with his hat filled with twigs beside him, the girl holding a flower-garland and with a vase of flowers on a tree-stump beside him (both figures with some restoration, twig in his hand a restored replacement, chips to flowers), blue crossed swords marks, she with Pressnummer 62, incised F. 69, circa 1880
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION after the original models by M. V. Acier and J. C. Schoenheit wearing striped and flowered dress, he standing beside a tree-stump holding a twig and with his hat filled with twigs beside him, the girl holding a flower-garland and with a vase of flowers on a tree-stump beside him (both figures with some restoration, twig in his hand a restored replacement, chips to flowers), blue crossed swords marks, she with Pressnummer 62, incised F. 69, circa 1880
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high (2)
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See T. H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures, Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser, 1785-1792, nos. 74 and 75 for the original drawings of 1777