A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS ALLEGORICAL OF LOVE AND MATRIMONY after models by Acier and Schönheit, wearing striped and flowered dress, he leaning against a tree-trunk clasping a pigeon with a love-letter tied around its neck, she supporting a bird-cage on her right shoulder and holding a letter in her left hand, on circular bases moulded with a band of fret-pattern enriched in gilding (minute chips to extremities and chip to her base), blue crossed swords marks and Pressnumern 43 and 62, incised F 73, painted numbers 52 and 75, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS ALLEGORICAL OF LOVE AND MATRIMONY after models by Acier and Schönheit, wearing striped and flowered dress, he leaning against a tree-trunk clasping a pigeon with a love-letter tied around its neck, she supporting a bird-cage on her right shoulder and holding a letter in her left hand, on circular bases moulded with a band of fret-pattern enriched in gilding (minute chips to extremities and chip to her base), blue crossed swords marks and Pressnumern 43 and 62, incised F 73, painted numbers 52 and 75, circa 1880
6¾in. and 7½in. (17.4cm. and 19cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. T. H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures, Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792, p. 80. See also the pair sold in these Rooms, 29 January 1987, lot 58

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