A MEISSEN GROUP OF A WOMAN AND SWADDLING BABY SEATED ON A GOAT, after the model by J. F. Eberlein, the woman wearing a spotted white bonnet, flowered and striped clothes and a yellow apron, the child wrapped in a chequered cloth, the goat standing to the right with a suckling kid, on a grassy white rectangular bases edged in gilding (restoration to goat's ears and horns, her arms and baby, and to her shoes, chip below base), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 72, incised 155, circa 1890

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF A WOMAN AND SWADDLING BABY SEATED ON A GOAT, after the model by J. F. Eberlein, the woman wearing a spotted white bonnet, flowered and striped clothes and a yellow apron, the child wrapped in a chequered cloth, the goat standing to the right with a suckling kid, on a grassy white rectangular bases edged in gilding (restoration to goat's ears and horns, her arms and baby, and to her shoes, chip below base), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 72, incised 155, circa 1890
7in. (18cm.) high

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Cf. R. Rückert, op. cit., p. 216, no. 978 for an example of circa 1740

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