Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 1st choice, design by Alfred König 1904, model no. U 182, "The First Ice Skating", young mother teaching her daughter how to skate, oval base as ice surface, colored painting, height approx. 14.5 cm, pommel swords from the design period around/after 1904; Alfred König (1871-1940), modeler at the Meissen manufactory since 1897, studied at the Dresden Academy from 1913, until he left in 1932 he created an extensive figurative work, numerous children's figures, but also Asian motifs or soldier figures during the I. world war
