TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF A PEASANT AND COMPANION BESIDE LARGE JUGS, each with one hand holding up the cover, he wearing a black hat, flowered turquoise coat and grey breeches, she wearing a spotted white head-scarf, flowered bodice and skirt and a white apron, the baluster jugs applied with flowering and leafy branches, each seated on a tree-stump on a grassy mound base (chips to flowers and some restoration to leaves, small chip to cover of her jug), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 118 and 120, incised 1234 and 904, painted numbers 83, circa 1880

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TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF A PEASANT AND COMPANION BESIDE LARGE JUGS, each with one hand holding up the cover, he wearing a black hat, flowered turquoise coat and grey breeches, she wearing a spotted white head-scarf, flowered bodice and skirt and a white apron, the baluster jugs applied with flowering and leafy branches, each seated on a tree-stump on a grassy mound base (chips to flowers and some restoration to leaves, small chip to cover of her jug), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 118 and 120, incised 1234 and 904, painted numbers 83, circa 1880
7½in. (19cm.) high (2)

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