Group of figures "The disturbed slumber". Original title Three children on an oval meadow. Girl asleep in the centre, leaning against a stone bench, next to her basket filled with porcelain and a doll. Above her bent boy at the fence. A boy kneeling at the side, disturbing her sleep. Polychrome painting with subtle gold decoration. Designed by Johann Peter Melchior. Minimally dam. / rest.; manufacturer's mark. H. 15,5 cm. W. 18,5 cm. Cf. cat. Reber, Johann Peter Melchior in Höchst, p. 34, ill. 41. Provenance: Dissolution of an important German private collection - part II. A porcelain figure group titled "the disturbed slumer" modelled by J. P. Melchior. Minor chipped/restored. Manufacturer's mark. Highest. After 1770.