A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF GARDENERS after models by M. V. Acier and J. C. Schonheit wearing striped and flowered rural dress, she standing beside a vase of flowers on a tree-stump and holding a garland of flowers, he holding a leafy branch issuing from a tree-stump and with a knife pendent from his waist, his hat containing small logs in the fork of the tree below, each standing on grassy circular bases edged with moulded gilt key-pattern (her flowers in pot lacking, chips to applied flowers, branch in his right hand lacking), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 42 and 81, incised F.69, painted numbers 7, circa 1880