A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF GARDENERS AND A BOWL MOUNTED IN GILT-BRONZE AS A POT POURRI, THE PORCELAIN, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

Property from the Estate of Susan S. Dillon

A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF GARDENERS AND A BOWL MOUNTED IN GILT-BRONZE AS A POT POURRI, THE PORCELAIN, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

each modeled as a young boy, one wearing a puce, blue and yellow hat and costume, holding a rake and the other wearing a yellow, blue and white costume, holding a staff and bearing on his back a pannier of flowers, each on gilt-edged scroll-molded mound base flanking an oval bowl molded with basketwork and reserved with four quatrefoil panels painted with Watteau figures, mounted with a pierced gilt-bronze cover and resting on a gilt-bronze tree affixed with porcelain blossoms, all on a shaped rectangular gilt-bronze base with melon and leaf feet with green tôle peinte branches.

width 10 in.; height 8 ¼ in.

25.3 cm; 21 cm