Featured White paste fighting Putti Pot! Marked 35

A purchase from the 50p table.
I know it’s damaged but the fighting Putti ( presumably that’s what they are?) intrigued me. Someone bothered to mend it, albeit badly, so it was loved!
Any ideas of age or maker please? German? Or the meaning of the gold 35 on the base?
c8cm long and c6cm tall.
Calling @Bronwen please can you tell me if there is any significance that they are squabbling over a boot?
Thankyou

 

Think I may have answered some of my own question!
Conta & Boehme? German, c1850

 

They are fully clothed, so I don't think putti.
I do think the situation will end in tears.

 

I wonder if it was entirely gilded when new.

 

Modest Putti?
It does look like someone is going to get clobbered with that boot

 

Which thing is the boot? I can't make much out. I thought they were fighting over whatever is in the bowl/basket/nest. Eggs? Fruit? Potatoes?

 

Against my better judgement... I think that's charming.

Debora

 

I’m not going to admit it to ANYONE but I quite like it too


Oh, blast, I did it didn’t I?

 

As has already been noted they're too clothed (& too long in the leg) to be putti. Schoolboys, more like, maybe brothers or best friends. I'm also with AJ in having some trouble making out what's going on. There does seem to be a bird's nest with 3 eggs, situated perilously near the action, but seemingly not the focus of it. And what are all those rectangular things that have been knocked to the ground? Not books. They may be the object of the row & the boot a ready to hand weapon. Boy on top looks very determined.

 

The figures are wearing long pants. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't meant to be grown men.

Debora

 

Don't boys go into long pants at about the age of 11, when they go off to boarding school? Think a knock down drag out between grown men would not be an amusing subject for the lid of a trinket jar.

 

That’s bonkers. I’d have bought it.

 

We are cut from the same cloth OBB!

 

This reminds me of the image on a stereoview in my collection. Taken in about the 1870s by the studio of Jeremiah Gurney, well-known New York photographer.

Here is half of the stereo image! I've never known what it represents. Gurney was well known for theatrical photos, so I assumed it was from a play.

 

That’s brilliant, there are definite similarities and would explain the slightly odd subject matter.
Great work @Figtree3 , Thankyou!