A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A YOUNG GALLANT AND COMPANION after models by M. V. Acier, in diffident poses, he wearing a plumed black hat and both wearing striped and flowered clothes trimmed in lace and enriched in gilding, he with his left hand raised to his chin, standing before a broken marble column, she with her hands clasped before her, looking at a broken mirror at her feet, on circular bases moulded with gilt scrolls (restoration to plumes of his cap and minute flakes to its peak), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 43 and 44, incised F34., circa 1880
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A YOUNG GALLANT AND COMPANION after models by M. V. Acier, in diffident poses, he wearing a plumed black hat and both wearing striped and flowered clothes trimmed in lace and enriched in gilding, he with his left hand raised to his chin, standing before a broken marble column, she with her hands clasped before her, looking at a broken mirror at her feet, on circular bases moulded with gilt scrolls (restoration to plumes of his cap and minute flakes to its peak), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 43 and 44, incised F34., circa 1880
6in. (15cm.) high (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., Table 19, nos. 6 and 7, F34 for examples of circa 1775