A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SHEPHERD PLAYING THE FLUTE, from the Schäferkapelle, modelled by Kaendler and Reinicke, wearing a purple bonnet, a chequered coat, lilac trousers, black shoes, standing beside a gnarled treetrunk encrusted with trailing flowers, a recumbent sheep to his feet, on scroll-moulded base (hat and bow chipped) marked with blue crossed swords, circa 1760 and A PAIR OF GERMAN PORCELAIN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EAGLES, modelled after Meissen examples by Kaendler, with large open wings in blackish hues, perched on small shaped rockwork base, on rocaille ormolu-mounted pedestals, blind stamp for Prag, mid 19th Century

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SHEPHERD PLAYING THE FLUTE, from the Schäferkapelle, modelled by Kaendler and Reinicke, wearing a purple bonnet, a chequered coat, lilac trousers, black shoes, standing beside a gnarled treetrunk encrusted with trailing flowers, a recumbent sheep to his feet, on scroll-moulded base (hat and bow chipped) marked with blue crossed swords, circa 1760 and A PAIR OF GERMAN PORCELAIN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EAGLES, modelled after Meissen examples by Kaendler, with large open wings in blackish hues, perched on small shaped rockwork base, on rocaille ormolu-mounted pedestals, blind stamp for Prag, mid 19th Century

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