Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

196 A pair of Meissen figural groups, late 19th century each modelled with a central figure dressed in eighteenth century attire, standing before a rocky mound surrounded by four children holding garlands of flowers and bunches of grapes, with a goat, a duck, a hound and hares, on a pink and green pierced rocaille base with gilt highlights, some damage, firing faults, underglaze-blue crossed swords, impressed numerals ‘2179’, 34,5cm high (2) R  -   197 A Meissen figural group, late 19th century modelled with four figures dressed in eighteenth century attire, dancing around a tree, on a gilt and scroll work base, some chipping and damage to the tree, underglaze-blue crossed swords, impressed numerals ‘2728, 70’, painted 12, 31,5cm high ; and a Meissen figural group, late 19th century, modelled as pastoral figures attending a lamb, the young woman with a basket of grapes on her lap, on a moulded rocky base, with gilt-line decoration, restorations, impressed numerals ‘163, 33, 6.41’, painted 39, indistinct underglaze-blue mark, 19,5cm high (2) R  -   198 A pair of German ‘chinoiserie’ figural groups, late 19th century each modelled with figures dressed in oriental attire reading a book, before an open trellis-work bough encrusted with flowers and foliage, on a shaped base, firing cracks, chipping, underglaze-blue mark, 22cm high ; and a Capodimonte figural group of ‘The Gossips’, modern, modelled with two gentlemen seated on a green and gilt settee, one figure lacking a cigar, overglazed painted mark, etched Gellé, 12cm high (3) R  -   199 Two gilt-metal mounted porcelain boxes, Paris, late 19th century each painted with a panel of a courting couple within a gilt cartouche against a dark blue ground, repair, overglaze-blue factory mark, the taller 10,5cm high ; and a Meissen blue and gilt cabinet plate, early 20th century, moulded in relief with four panels of flowers, enclosed by gilt scroll and shell work, underglaze- blue crossed swords, 30cm diameter (3) R  -   200 A pair of German nodding ‘pagoda’ figures, after the Meissen original, late 19th century each sitting cross-legged, their oriental robes and head attire decorated in shades of blue, white and gilt, with weighted heads, moving tongues and animated hands, impressed numerals ‘5380’ and factory mark, painted gilded number, 15cm high (2) R  -   201 A Meissen allegorical figural group of ‘Learning’, late 19th century modelled with a putti turning the leaves of a book, attended by a pastoral figure, two children and their mother, the reverse with a pair of maidens, on a moulded rocky base, firing cracks, restorations, damage, impressed numerals ‘F74’, indistinct underglaze-blue crossed swords, 31cm high R  -   196 197 198 199 200 201 80