The first is in the manner of Meissen, a girl carrying a lamb, (6.75in.) (chip to hat; loss of lamb's foot; girl's head re-glued); two 19th century French faience figures of hunchback dwarves (3.5 in.) after Jacques Callot (allover crazing lines; both dwarves with broken walking sticks and arms holding them re-glued); the fourth figurine depicts a boy holding a mask, faint underside mark probably Volkstedt (break and re-glue to hand).

By descent from the John Jacob Astor IV family of Rhinebeck, New York, through William Astor Drayton, the father of Countess Margaret (Peggy) Reventlow, philanthropist and patron of services for the blind

This are figurines produced in France in the 19th century, modeled after engravings by Jacques Callot (1592-1635). The engravings, printed in 1622, show a troupe of grotesque dwarf entertainers known as Les Gobbi, who performed in Italy for the Medici Court while Callot was working there. Dwarfs would have been regarded as amusing, and a troupe that sang and danced would have been a great novelty in the 17th century.