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A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-TIERED COMPORTS surmounted by a pair of figures of a boy and girl, wearing orange and gilt striped and flowered dress, he holding a wreath of flowers and she with flowers in her apron, each standing on a scroll-moulded mound base fixed to the comport, the dishes with pierced trellis-pattern borders moulded with flowered cartouches and on spirally-moulded knopped stems, the moulded details enriched in orange and gilding (her head re-stuck and right thumb lacking, chips to rims and flowers), blue crossed swords marks, various Pressnummern, incised 90, circa 1890 16¼in. (41.3cm.) high (2)