Two small Meissen miner figurines from the "Disguised Cupids" series A putto standing on a rocaille-decorated, flower-covered plinth, dressed as a miner with a black miner's cap, miner's leather and cherub bag and pickaxe and a miner's maid in a long skirt, holding a hammer in her right hand and carrying a basket filled with ore in her right arm. Polychrome painting with gold staffage. Probably designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Minimally rest/best; partial crossed swords mark. H. 9 cm. Cf. Slotta, cat. Precious as gold, Deutsches Bergmann-Museum Bochum, no. 368-376; cat. Staatl. Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Figuren I, Große und kleine verkleidete Amoretten. Two porcelain figures of a cupid as miner from the series "Disguised amorettes". Minor restored/chipped. Partly crossed swords mark. Meissen. 2nd half 18th cent.