A finely modelled pair of Dresden porcelain figure groups representing the seasonal allegories “Summer” and “Winter”, produced by the Carl Thieme factory in Potschappel near Dresden, known internationally as Dresden Porcelain. Established in 1872, the firm specialised in decorative and luxury porcelain of high artistic quality.The compositions are arranged as cabinet-scale tableaux with a boy and girl on oval gilt-edged bases, showing refined modelling and particularly expressive hand-painted faces and details. The “Summer” group illustrates harvest time, with the boy holding a sickle beside wheat sheaves and the girl with floral garland and mandolin, the intact sickle being a notable and uncommon survival.The “Winter” group shows a cold-season rural scene with a boy on a sledge holding an axe and a girl warming her hands over a small fire pot, dressed in traditional Eastern Slavic winter costume reflecting a popular folk-inspired theme of the period.Both pieces carry impre...