A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION wearing striped and flowered 18th Century dress, he with his right arm raised, holding a pink rose, his hat filled with flowers tucked beneath his left arm, she taking a rose from a flower-filled basket suspended from her shoulders by a turquoise ribbon, standing on circular grassy mound bases moulded with gilt key pattern (she with chips to hat, right hand and base, he with chip to right corner of coat, both with chips to applied flowers, leaves and lace trimmings of dress), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 122 and 44, incised C72 and C73, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION wearing striped and flowered 18th Century dress, he with his right arm raised, holding a pink rose, his hat filled with flowers tucked beneath his left arm, she taking a rose from a flower-filled basket suspended from her shoulders by a turquoise ribbon, standing on circular grassy mound bases moulded with gilt key pattern (she with chips to hat, right hand and base, he with chip to right corner of coat, both with chips to applied flowers, leaves and lace trimmings of dress), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 122 and 44, incised C72 and C73, circa 1880
7in. and 6½in. (17.5cm. and 16.5cm.) high (2)

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