A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A BOY AND GIRL after original models by M. V. Acier, wearing lace-trimmed striped and flowered dress in the 18th Century style, he seated on a tasselled orange cushion on a high-backed chair, turning towards his companion, holding his doffed hat and a bunch of cherries taken from an overturned basket below the chair, she seated on a blue cushion on a stool, holding an open book and with an overturned basket of flowers below, on white circular bases moulded with pink and gilt gadroons (he with restoration, minute chips to trimmings), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 43, incised F.51., painted numbers 38, circa 1880