Timpanist on horseback, Meissen, crossed sword mark after 1973, 1st quality, designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler in 1753, model no. 69555, young gentleman sitting on horseback on an oval base with mallets for timpani hanging on both sides of the horse, polychrome painted and ornamental gilded, timpani glued, h. 20 cm Lit .Description: Timpanist on horseback, Meissen, crossed sword mark after 1973, 1st quality, designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler in 1753, model no. 69555, young gentleman sitting on horseback on an oval base with mallets for timpani hanging on both sides of the horse, polychrome painted and ornamental gilded, timpani glued, h. 20 cm Lit .: Bergmann, Meissen figures, volume III, part I, p. 233