Five Höchst porcelain figures and figure groups of children, circa 1765-75

modelled by J.P. Melchior, comprising: 

a group of a shepherdess seated by a tree stump, a sheep with ribbons around its neck at her feet, 

a group of a youth, seated on grassy rockwork, a spaniel at his feet, 

a figure of a boy, barefoot, wearing a pink jacket and yellow breeches, 

a figure of an elegantly dressed youth, holding a garland of flowers over his shoulders and wearing a broad-brimmed black hat,

and a figure of boy, holding an apple and leaning on a tree stump,

each on a grassy rockwork base, 

four with wheel marks in underglaze-blue 

Height of tallest 16.5 cm; 6 ½ in