A Meissen ormolu-mounted group of Harlequin and Columbine circa 1920

after the 18th-century model by Johann Joachim Kändler, both figures seated on a rocky mound base encrusted with flowers, Harlequin holding a sausage in his left hand and with his right hand resting on a hat on Columbine's knee, she reaching for his mask and holding a slapslick in her right hand, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and incised numeral 404.

Please note that the group has not been examined out of the ormolu-mount. The tip of the slapstick Columbine is holding has been broken off and restored back. There is a small flake to the black enamel on Harlequin's jacket. Otherwise the group is in good condition.
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A similar group is illustrated in the manufactory catalogue, VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Figuren I, cat. no. 404.