A MEISSEN GROUP OF A BOY AND A GIRL PUTTO, scantily clad in blue and pink drapes and standing flanking a rabbit-hutch, the boy holding a rabbit nestling in a helmet, on a grassy base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (restoration to right ear of rabbit), incised H 37; a similar group of putti, the girl seated with a globe supported on her knee and the boy holding instruments (instruments and two of her right toes lacking, chips to base and tree), Pressnummer 127, incised C34., painted number 41; and a figure of Cupid, sharpening an arrow on a knife-grinder and with a jug of oil hanging from the branch of a tree (restoration to left wing, various chips), Pressnummer 91, incised C.62., painted number 2, all with blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880 4¾in. (12cm.) high (3)

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF A BOY AND A GIRL PUTTO, scantily clad in blue and pink drapes and standing flanking a rabbit-hutch, the boy holding a rabbit nestling in a helmet, on a grassy base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (restoration to right ear of rabbit), incised H 37; a similar group of putti, the girl seated with a globe supported on her knee and the boy holding instruments (instruments and two of her right toes lacking, chips to base and tree), Pressnummer 127, incised C34., painted number 41; and a figure of Cupid, sharpening an arrow on a knife-grinder and with a jug of oil hanging from the branch of a tree (restoration to left wing, various chips), Pressnummer 91, incised C.62., painted number 2, all with blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880 4¾in. (12cm.) high (3)

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