A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) POT-POURRI VASE AND PIERCED COVER after the original model by J. F. Eberlein, modelled as a woman wearing a blue dress, pink shawl and spotted scarf seated with two naked children on her lap, flanked by a naked boy and a girl wearing a white dress, below a spirally-moulded green, pink and white striped vase and cover, with two entwined branch handles issuing grapes and flowers, the cover with a rose finial and applied with scattered flowers, on a grassy pedestal base (restored at junction of vase and stem, crack to base, one boy's left toes lacking, chips to applied decoration, miute chip to base, small surface chips to tree-stump

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A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) POT-POURRI VASE AND PIERCED COVER after the original model by J. F. Eberlein, modelled as a woman wearing a blue dress, pink shawl and spotted scarf seated with two naked children on her lap, flanked by a naked boy and a girl wearing a white dress, below a spirally-moulded green, pink and white striped vase and cover, with two entwined branch handles issuing grapes and flowers, the cover with a rose finial and applied with scattered flowers, on a grassy pedestal base (restored at junction of vase and stem, crack to base, one boy's left toes lacking, chips to applied decoration, miute chip to base, small surface chips to tree-stump
12¾in. (32.5cm.) high

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Cf. Dr. K. Belring, (ed.), op. cit., Table 15, no. 8

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