TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF WOODMEN CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF ONE BASE AND UNDERSIDE OF OTHER Modelled by P. Reinicke , the sawyer wearing a fur-lined green cap and russet coat, a yellow waistcoat and blue breeches, standing astride a pile of cut logs and sawing a log on an X-framed trestle, the other woodman splitting logs with an axe and wearing a black hat, a gilt-buttoned russet waistcoat, a white shirt and blue breeches, each on shaped mound bases (saw broken through and restuck with some replaced areas, wood-splitter with over-painting to breeches disguising crack or flaking to enamel, over-painting to hat disguising chipping or flaking, axe restored) Sawyer 4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high; wood-cutter 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high (2)
TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF WOODMEN CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF ONE BASE AND UNDERSIDE OF OTHER Modelled by P. Reinicke , the sawyer wearing a fur-lined green cap and russet coat, a yellow waistcoat and blue breeches, standing astride a pile of cut logs and sawing a log on an X-framed trestle, the other woodman splitting logs with an axe and wearing a black hat, a gilt-buttoned russet waistcoat, a white shirt and blue breeches, each on shaped mound bases (saw broken through and restuck with some replaced areas, wood-splitter with over-painting to breeches disguising crack or flaking to enamel, over-painting to hat disguising chipping or flaking, axe restored) Sawyer 4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high; wood-cutter 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high (2)
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