A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF TOUCH from a set of the Senses, after the original model by J. C. Schoenheit, as a lady wearing 18th Century-style lace-trimmed dress, seated on a low stool with a purple cushion, beside a low wooden table with scrolling legs supporting a bird-cage, the bird inside nipping her finger, on a shaped-rectangular base moulded with pink and gilt gadroons (chips to tip of beak, her right index finger, and to trimmings of dress), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 62, incised E4., circa 1880
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A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF TOUCH from a set of the Senses, after the original model by J. C. Schoenheit, as a lady wearing 18th Century-style lace-trimmed dress, seated on a low stool with a purple cushion, beside a low wooden table with scrolling legs supporting a bird-cage, the bird inside nipping her finger, on a shaped-rectangular base moulded with pink and gilt gadroons (chips to tip of beak, her right index finger, and to trimmings of dress), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 62, incised E4., circa 1880
5¾in. (14.6cm.) high
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Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., p. 66, Fig. 159