FRIEDRICH ELIAS MEYER (German 1723-1785) A PAIR OF POLYCHROME ENAMEL DECORATED PORCELAIN FIGURES OF MALABARS, FOR MEISSENER PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR, GERMANY, CIRCA 1751, the male and female figures wearing conical straw hats and playing string instruments, with a box strapped to their backs, on shaped scrolled base, their floral pattern robes decorated with gilt highlighted cobalt blue glaze, both with underglaze blue crossed sword marks, the male with incised script "1569" and "80," height: 7 1/2", width: 3 3/4", depth: 3 1/4"; the female with incised "1-16" and "167," height: 7 3/8", width: 3 3/8", depth: 2 3/4".