A PAIR OF MEISSEN SALTS, each modelled as a scantily clad putto, the boy wearing a spotted blue drape and the girl wearing a flowered pink drape and a head-band, each seated beside a shell with a shaded pink interior and a mottled brown exterior, on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (boy's right lower leg and foot and also part of left foot lacking, damage to girl's shell and left toes), blue crossed swords marks, she with Pressnummer 70, incised F. 181. and F. 182, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN SALTS, each modelled as a scantily clad putto, the boy wearing a spotted blue drape and the girl wearing a flowered pink drape and a head-band, each seated beside a shell with a shaded pink interior and a mottled brown exterior, on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (boy's right lower leg and foot and also part of left foot lacking, damage to girl's shell and left toes), blue crossed swords marks, she with Pressnummer 70, incised F. 181. and F. 182, circa 1880
4¼in. (11cm.) high (2)

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