A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS after models by C. C. Punct in dancing pose, he wearing a pink-lined pale-blue coat, flowered and striped waistcoat and striped lilac breeches, she wearing a spotted head-scarf, pale-blue bodice with flowers in her corsage, a flowered white skirt and white apron, playing the tambourine, each with a lamb at their feet, on grassy tree-stump mound bases applied with flowers and moulded with white and gilt scrolls (his right hand a restored replacement and chip to cuff, small chips to applied flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords marks, she with Pressnummern 44 and 126, incised 2940 and 2933, painted numbers 56, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS after models by C. C. Punct in dancing pose, he wearing a pink-lined pale-blue coat, flowered and striped waistcoat and striped lilac breeches, she wearing a spotted head-scarf, pale-blue bodice with flowers in her corsage, a flowered white skirt and white apron, playing the tambourine, each with a lamb at their feet, on grassy tree-stump mound bases applied with flowers and moulded with white and gilt scrolls (his right hand a restored replacement and chip to cuff, small chips to applied flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords marks, she with Pressnummern 44 and 126, incised 2940 and 2933, painted numbers 56, circa 1880
9¼in. and 8¾in. (23.6cm. and 22.3cm.) high

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Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., Tab. 18, nos. 4 and 5 for examples of circa 1763

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