A PAIR OF MEISSEN CANDLEHOLDERS modelled as figures allegorical of Spring and Winter the former as a maiden scantily clad in a pale-blue-lined flowered pink robe, holding a single rose taken from a cluster of flowers in a rococo-scroll-moulded vase beside her, standing against a slender tree-trunk applied with flowers and terminating in a white leaf-moulded nozzle enriched in pink and turquoise, the latter as a bearded old man drawing a fur-lined claret drape over his head and warming his left hand over a small log-fire on a leaf-moulded baluster pedestal, the tree-trunk behind him applied with ivy, each on a scroll-moulded shaped-oval base (chips to flowers and leaves, Winter's tree-trunk repaired and firing crack to his right ankle), blue crossed swords marks, various Pressnumern, one with Pressnumer 2730, the other incised 2731, painted numbers 23 and 28, circa 1880