Various Properties
FOUR MEISSEN FIGURES OF THE SENSES after the original models by J. C. Schönheit, the ladies wearing lace-trimmed striped and flowered dress, seated on low stools beside tables or a spinet, each on a shaped rectangular base moulded with pink and gilt lozenges (Sound with minute chip to corner of spinet and chips to bonnet, all with minute chips to trimmings of dress), blue crossed swords marks, various Pressnummern and incised numbers, circa 1860, 5in. to 6in. (13cm. to 15cm.) high; and a similar Vienna figure of a lady emblematic of Smell, holding a bouquet taken from a basket (minute chips to dress), impressed shield mark and date code for 1857, 5¾in. (14.5cm.) high (5)
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FOUR MEISSEN FIGURES OF THE SENSES after the original models by J. C. Schönheit, the ladies wearing lace-trimmed striped and flowered dress, seated on low stools beside tables or a spinet, each on a shaped rectangular base moulded with pink and gilt lozenges (Sound with minute chip to corner of spinet and chips to bonnet, all with minute chips to trimmings of dress), blue crossed swords marks, various Pressnummern and incised numbers, circa 1860, 5in. to 6in. (13cm. to 15cm.) high; and a similar Vienna figure of a lady emblematic of Smell, holding a bouquet taken from a basket (minute chips to dress), impressed shield mark and date code for 1857, 5¾in. (14.5cm.) high (5)