A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A GIRL ASLEEP after a model by Acier and Schönheit, painted outside the factory, seated in a high-backed wooden chair, her left arm resting on a wooden table with a white marbled top, wearing a spotted, flowered and striped dress adorned with lace and with a love-letter tucked into her bodice, her iron-red shoes at her side, on a shaped-square paved base (chip to reverse of base, crack to base, back of skirt and chair, probably originating in a firing-crack, minute chips to applied decoration), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumern 129 and 43, incised E. 58., circa 1880

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A GIRL ASLEEP after a model by Acier and Schönheit, painted outside the factory, seated in a high-backed wooden chair, her left arm resting on a wooden table with a white marbled top, wearing a spotted, flowered and striped dress adorned with lace and with a love-letter tucked into her bodice, her iron-red shoes at her side, on a shaped-square paved base (chip to reverse of base, crack to base, back of skirt and chair, probably originating in a firing-crack, minute chips to applied decoration), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumern 129 and 43, incised E. 58., circa 1880
8¼in. (21cm.) high

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Cf. T. H. Clarke, op. cit., p. 65, no. 25 for the drawing of an example of circa 1774

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