“Winter” - Allegory from the Four Seasons Series, Meissen

porcelain, polychromed and gilt, the boy sitting on a sledge with a bundle of wood and holding a hoe in his right hand, dressed with a fur hat, decorated with vine leaf tendrils, on the right a girl standing and warming herself at the hot coal pot, a hoe on the side, oval stone base with gilt edges and foliate frieze, height 14 cm, very slightly chipped, Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, second half of the 19th century, model no. G 94, former no. 83, painter no. 44, model by Johann Carl Schönheit 1782 (Ru)