A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN wearing striped and flowered 18th Century dress trimmed with lace and seated in high-backed chairs, she holding a spool of cotton and he seated cross-legged reading a book with his sword at his side and flowers spilling from a basket under his stool, on white shaped circular bases pierced with gilt scrolls (segment of ribbon on her dress and handle of his sword both lacking, chips to lace trimmings), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 36 and 56, incised C.28., circa 1880