A MEISSEN GROUP OF LOVERS seated facing each other, she in a high-backed green and white chair, with her right hand on his left knee, holding a fan and he on a stool covered in a claret drape, with his left hand on her right shoulder, examining his lady with a spyglass?, wearing 18th century dress, he with his hair en queue, tied in a black bow, wearing a yellow coat and breeches and a flowered waistcoat, his tricorn hat at his side, she wearing a spotted pink open robe and a striped and flowered dress, on an oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls and shells, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 83, incised J?174, circa 1880