A Meissen group of children emblematic of Summer, 19th centuryAfter the 18th century model by J.C. Schönheit, from a set of the four seasons, with a girl playing a mandolin and wearing a flower garland around her shoulders, a boy seated on wheat sheafs beside her holding a sickle, the base moulded with a border heigthened in turquoise and pink, 15.8cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, painter's number in black (restoration to extremities)注脚The full set of models were first modelled by Schönheit January to June 1782; see T.H. Clarke, Meissen Marcolini Figures Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz (103) 1988, nos. 102-105, p.38, and S. & T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers A1 - Z99 (2014), nos. 241-244.