A MEISSEN GROUP OF SHEPHERD LOVERS modelled by J.J. Kändler, he in yellow hat, white jacket, shirt and breeches edged in purple, she in white bodice edged in yellow and white skirt with an iron-red hem and yellow shoes with blue rosettes, she with a sheep on her lap and he with a dog at his side, seated on rockwork before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (tip of her right little finger lacking, his right little finger and part of right fingers lacking, chip to one ear of sheep, chips to flowers and foliage and hat ribbon, flaking to his right foot), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1740, later ormolu mount