A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A FARM BOY AND GIRL, wearing flowered and striped rural dress, feeding clusters of hens and geese at their feet, she scattering grain from a wicker tray, he dropping vegetables from his hat, on grassy mound bases moulded with white and gilt scrolls (restoration to her body, left arm and edge of tray, chips to vegetables and to his base), Pressnummern 97 and 78, incised 2814 and C 41., painted numbers 41; and a similar figure of a girl, (one chicken lacking and restoration to base), Pressnummer 91, all with blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A FARM BOY AND GIRL, wearing flowered and striped rural dress, feeding clusters of hens and geese at their feet, she scattering grain from a wicker tray, he dropping vegetables from his hat, on grassy mound bases moulded with white and gilt scrolls (restoration to her body, left arm and edge of tray, chips to vegetables and to his base), Pressnummern 97 and 78, incised 2814 and C 41., painted numbers 41; and a similar figure of a girl, (one chicken lacking and restoration to base), Pressnummer 91, all with blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880
4¼in. and 5in. (11cm. and 13cm.) high (3)

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