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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 1557845, member: 12007&quot;]Purchased this figure group last week and subsequently identified it as a Thuringian production by Porzellanfabrik Hertwig &amp; Co., marked on the back with their logo:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]229494[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The piece stands about a foot tall and depicts a figure of Mercury with a goat at his feet. Mercury (or Hermes) is cradling a child resting upon what seems to be a lion-headed length of fabric or perhaps a skin ...and presenting the child to whom I assume is the mother. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]229495[/ATTACH] </p><p>I thought at first I was looking at the birth of cupid, but I&#039;m not so sure that IS the subject as Venus wasn&#039;t involved with Mercury as far as I know!</p><p><br /></p><p>Any suggestions on what&#039;s going on here gratefully received![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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