comprising a pastoral group of a reclining piper and a dancer, probably Limbach; a Kloster Veilsdorf figure of a peasant mother and child, modelled by Heyd, and a small model of a merchant girl astride a cow,  

The pastoral group of a reclining piper and a dancer, the female figure broken through waist with associated restoration to her forearms and left part of her apron. The male figure's nose and index finger, and the two shorter tree branches restored. The Kloster Veilsdorf figure of a peasant mother and child, a shallow chip to edge of base restored, otherwise in good appearance. The model of a girl with cow, restoration to extremities, including the cow's left horn and ear, her right shoe and a chip to base.
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For the model of the piping shepherd group see Scherf and Karpinski, op. cit., no. 228, Christophe Fritzsche, op. cit., 2003, p. 103.