A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) GROUP OF THREE CHERUBS ALLEGORICAL OF GEOGRAPHY, painted outside the factory, one girl wearing a yellow-lined flowered robe and a claret cloak, with a globe on her knee and holding a pair of dividers, accompanied by two boys holding instruments and books, on a trefoil base with a moulded reeded and leaf border (instruments lacking, girl with one wing and two fingers lacking and with chip to corner of cloak, crack and chips to base), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 51, incised 13, painted number 53, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) GROUP OF THREE CHERUBS ALLEGORICAL OF GEOGRAPHY, painted outside the factory, one girl wearing a yellow-lined flowered robe and a claret cloak, with a globe on her knee and holding a pair of dividers, accompanied by two boys holding instruments and books, on a trefoil base with a moulded reeded and leaf border (instruments lacking, girl with one wing and two fingers lacking and with chip to corner of cloak, crack and chips to base), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 51, incised 13, painted number 53, circa 1880
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high

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