Elegant Meissen q Ludwigsburg Victorian Couple Figurine

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is a gorgeous Meissen quality handpainted, hard paste porcelain piece depicting a young lady and gentleman in period dress. The detail on their faces is just spectacular. Her individually painted hair is up in a Victorian style held with 2 green ribbons with a coil of hair on each side of her head. She is wearing a lovely gold trimmed gown with a yellow bodice and lovely hand painted skirt with much detail. She is holding up her dress and looking on as the gentleman has just bent down and picked one of the applied porcelain roses from the ground. He is wearing a royal blue coat and his vest and pants have hand painted designs on them. Behind them is a gold trimmed gate with a lilac colored drape over it. The figures look perfect on this stately base. It is in mint condition, I could find no chips, cracks, or repairs. This would look great on a mantle, in your favorite collection or give as a holiday gift to that someone special. It measures 9" high and the base is 9" wide by almost 5" deep. The mark on the bottom of this piece is the blue crown over double C mark from The Ducal Porcelain Factory in Germany 1759-1793. History Of The Item: Duke Carl Eugen Von Wurttemberg founded a porcelain factory in Ludwigsburg, Wurttemberg in 1758. The factory was called Herzoglich Aechte Porcelain Fabrique (Ducal Real Porcelain Factory) and was read more