The seated female plays a lute to a young man who gazes lovingly at her and proffers a posy of forget me nots with his left hand, whilst a recumbent lamb rests at their feet.
The scattered flowers decorating her skirt are known as Indianische Blumen, although they were, in fact, of Japanese origin.
They were thought to be Indian because they were found on decorated porcelain imported by the East India Company, at a time when most items arriving from the East were described as Indian.
The group was modelled by Johann Joachim Käendler (1706-1775), the most important modeller at the Meissen factory.
