A large Meissen figural basket centrepiece and matched stand, late 19th centuryModelled by Ernst August Leuteritz, with eight putti emblematic of the seasons on a rockwork base modelled with gilt-, puce- and green-edged scrollwork, around a scroll-moulded shaft with two oval panels painted with flowers and applied with flowering branches, surmounted by a pierced oval two-handled basket applied with flowering branches to the exterior and painted with four gilt cartouches enclosing flower sprays against a turquoise rope-twist pattern to the interior, the similarly decorated base on four scroll feet, painted with scattered flowers, 52cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model number 605 to base and No. 2772 to base, the base with painter's number 22. in green (restoration to stand, base of centrepiece and some extremities, typical chips and losses) (2)