TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION after the original models by M. V. Acier and J. C. Schönheit, wearing striped and flowered dress trimmed with 'lace', she holding a basket of flowers in her apron and offering a bouquet, standing beside a vase of flowers, he standing beside a spade and watering-can on a tree-stump, offering a rose-spray, on circular bases moulded with gilt fret-pattern (bouquet lacking, chips to extremities, restoration to handle of basket and to watering-can), blue crossed swords marks, he with Pressnummer 43, incised C.69., painted number 75, circa 1880