GERMAN PORCELAIN CUPID / CHILDREN FIGURAL ARTICLES, LOT OF FIVE, each having polychrome hand-painted applied flower and leaf decorations, comprising a match holder featuring three cupids laying on a circular base, each holding an egg-form cup, a quatrefoil-form bowl lifted by four figures having beautiful floral bouquet to interior, and three egg-form vases including one example with three winged cupids lifting the vase, one example featuring a winged cupid pulling a cart, and one example depicting two children standing on a circular base gathering flowers in their hats. Marks to underside include underglaze blue multiple lines, "SPM", and light blue-printed interlaced "SP" with "Dresden" below and circular "Guaranteed / Handpainted / Dresden Germany". Schmeisser Porcelain Factory, Thuringia; Sitzendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur, Thuringia; Carl Thieme Porcelain, Dresden, Germany; and others. Late 19th to 20th century. 5 3/8" HOA.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.
Bowl mostly undamaged, except one figure having loss to one finger; remaining having some losses, mostly minor, to flower petals or leaves; three cupid vase having two cupids with losses to feet.