A PAIR OF MEISSEN EQUESTRIAN FIGURES OF A HUNTSMAN AND LADY FALCONER
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, HE WITH INCISED T102., SHE INCISED V.132. VARIOUS PRESSNUMMERN, INCISED NUMERALS AND PAINTER'S MARKS
Modelled by Erich Hösel, he seated astride a stallion, wearing a black and gilt tricorn hat, a red jacket and black boots carrying a bugle over his shoulder, on a rocky shaped-oval scroll-moulded base applied with leaves and flowers, issuing tree-stumps supporting four running hounds with brown coats, the base painted with military trophies and pseudo coats-of-arms within scroll-moulded cartouches, the lady falconer similarly modelled astride a piebald stallion, she wearing a plumed black and gilt tricorn hat and long green jacket and skirt, carrying a falcon on her right arm, on a similar scroll-moulded base supporting four hounds, painted in puce with running stags and oak leaves, minor restoration and retouching to enamels
Each 16 in. (40.5 cm.) high (2)
A PAIR OF MEISSEN EQUESTRIAN FIGURES OF A HUNTSMAN AND LADY FALCONER
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, HE WITH INCISED T102., SHE INCISED V.132. VARIOUS PRESSNUMMERN, INCISED NUMERALS AND PAINTER'S MARKS
Modelled by Erich Hösel, he seated astride a stallion, wearing a black and gilt tricorn hat, a red jacket and black boots carrying a bugle over his shoulder, on a rocky shaped-oval scroll-moulded base applied with leaves and flowers, issuing tree-stumps supporting four running hounds with brown coats, the base painted with military trophies and pseudo coats-of-arms within scroll-moulded cartouches, the lady falconer similarly modelled astride a piebald stallion, she wearing a plumed black and gilt tricorn hat and long green jacket and skirt, carrying a falcon on her right arm, on a similar scroll-moulded base supporting four hounds, painted in puce with running stags and oak leaves, minor restoration and retouching to enamels
Each 16 in. (40.5 cm.) high (2)
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