modelled as a couple of grinning Chinoiserie figures seated cross-legged in lilac lined and gilt-edged floral robes, wearing lemon yellow shoes, the male figure with his robe hanging off his shoulders and belly exposed, the female figure slightly more modestly draped, with articulated tongues, heads and hands, blue crossed swords marks, 31cm high

For another large Meissen pagoda figure sold in these rooms see the European & Asian Works of Art Auction, 21 November 2018, lot 396

Provenance: Rev. and Mrs David McCready; thence by family descent to the vendor. David Frederick McCready (1874-1963) was born in Dublin. He married Hilda Mary Jessop Weiss on 3rd February 1909 and was ordained at Worcester in 1910. Attached to the staff of the Chaplain-General during the war, he became British Chaplain in Geneva from 1920, in the hope of clean Swiss air helping with his young son's chronic asthma, and Rural Dean of Switzerland from 1930. His wife, Hilda Mary Jessop Weiss, daughter of John Weiss of Birmingham, was a descendant through her mother of Thomas Jessop (1804-1887), proprietor of the Sheffield steelworks, William Jessop & Son; it is understood in the family that this pair of figures came to the McCready's through the Jessop connection.