A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A BOY AND GIRL wearing lace-trimmed striped and flowered dress, he teaching a dog to jump through a hoop, the animal similarly dressed in a tricorn hat and green coat, she spooning broth into the mouth of a cat wearing a lace cap on her lap, on pierced grassy bases enriched in gilding (minute chips to trimmings of dress), blue crossed swords and star marks, incised crossed swords within triangles, early 19th Century