A Meissen porcelain pastoral figure group, circa 1745-50

This model is first mentioned in Kändler’s Taxa in November 1745: "ein Groupgen, da eine Schäfferin auff einem Rasen sizt und auff der Laute spielet, neben ihr stehet ein Schäffer, so ihr ein Blühmigen Vergißmeinnicht verehret" [a group with a shepherdess seated on the grass and playing the lute, a shepherd stands next to her offering her forget-me-nots] (quoted by Hans Rafael, Zur "Taxa Kaendler", in Keramos 203/204, 2009, p. 66). Another example of this group is in the Victoria and Albert Musuem, London (accession no. C.932-1919).