A Meissen group of children at play, 19th century
After the 18th century modelled by M.V. Acier, with a girl standing on stils, a boy at her back supporting her and another boy lying on the ground leaning on a section of a column and reaching for her stilts, a hat filled with flowers hanging from a ribbon on a tree stump behind him, the base moulded with a gilt edged classical frieze, 22.5cm high, crossed swords mark, incised model number G.35 (some chips, sculpture from pedestal at back of base lacking)
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Originally modelled by Acier in 1780; see H. Clarke, Meissen Marcolini Figures Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz (103) 1988, no. 88.