A PAIR OF MEISSEN CANDLEHOLDERS modelled as a country-man and woman wearing striped and flowered dress, turned to left and right with one arm upraised to support a cylindrical wicker basket forming the nozzle on their heads, he with a spade propped against a tree-stump at his side, each standing on a grassy oval base applied with flowers and moulded with elaborate rococo-scrolls enriched in pink, turquoise and gilding (small chips to flowers, slight restoration to rim of one nozzle and chip to base), blue crossed swords marks, incised B 76 59, circa 1890