253. A Meissen Chinoiserie family group of a mother and two children holding parasols, circa 1745-55 Modelled by Peter Reinicke, the lady seated on a tree-stump with a child on her knee and another to her right, each holding a parasol, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 14.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to the base (minor restoration) Provenance The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain Based upon an engraving by J.J. Balechou after F. Boucher's Les Délices de l'Enfance; see E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, vol. I, 1972, p. 112, for the example in the Pauls Collection, Basel.