A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND WIFE wearing striped and flowered dress, she holding a wreath of flowers in her right hand and with a basket over her left, a spray tucked into her corsage, he with his hat held under his arm and holding a small bouquet taken from a basket suspended from a blue ribbon, she standing against a short tree-stump, he against a tree and scrolling pedestal with a spindle at his feet, on grassy square bases moulded with white and gilt foliate- scrolls (she with basket detached and damaged, left small finger lacking, cracks to overskirt, he with restoration to right arm and hand and to coat, blue ribbon broken, both with chips to bases, flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnumern 58, incised B. 65. 50 and 2868. 91, 1860-1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND WIFE wearing striped and flowered dress, she holding a wreath of flowers in her right hand and with a basket over her left, a spray tucked into her corsage, he with his hat held under his arm and holding a small bouquet taken from a basket suspended from a blue ribbon, she standing against a short tree-stump, he against a tree and scrolling pedestal with a spindle at his feet, on grassy square bases moulded with white and gilt foliate- scrolls (she with basket detached and damaged, left small finger lacking, cracks to overskirt, he with restoration to right arm and hand and to coat, blue ribbon broken, both with chips to bases, flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnumern 58, incised B. 65. 50 and 2868. 91, 1860-1880
19in. and 19¼in. (48.3cm. and 49cm.) high (2)

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Cf. Dr. K. Berling, ed., op. cit, p. 66

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