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FOUR MEISSEN GROUPS ALLEGORICAL OF THE SEASONS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

Each with two figures, Spring as a girl seated beside a tree-trunk, her companion holding flower garlands and with birds in a nest; Summer as a boy seated on a wheat sheaf, his companion standing playing a mandolin; Autumn with a girl holding grape vines, seated on a goat beside her companion playing a horn; Winter as a boy seated on faggots on a sled, his companion warming her hands over a brazier, all on oval bases moulded with stiff leaf-tips enriched in blue and pink--6in. (15.2cm.) high, the largest (4)

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