Counterparts. Standing on a strongly reliefed rocaille base, the spinning top-playing Malabar or the guitar-playing and singing Malabar, dressed in a long garment patterned with Indian flowers and lined with fur, wearing a purple-colored coat and a pointed straw hat, carrying a lantern or a wooden box on their back. Polychrome painting with gold staffage. Possibly by Friedrich Elias Meyer. Model numbers 1519 and 1523. Insignificant chips/restorations; crossed swords mark. Height: 32 cm. See catalog of the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen, II, 1519, 1523. A pair of pendant porcelain figures of Malabars. Meissen, 2nd half of the 19th century.
