A DRESDEN GROUP OF DIE GUTE MÜTTER after the original model by M. V. Acier at Meissen, the figures wearing striped 18th Century style dress, she seated in a high-backed chair with a young girl on her knee scattering playing-cards, a boy perched on the arm of the chair and an older boy seated on a stool beside them, on an oval gadroon-moulded base (restoration to five hands, to young boy's left leg and foot and to associated details of clothes and upholstery, minute chip to base), imitation blue crossed swords and star mark, circa 1880