Meissen porcelain figure of a Bacchic boy with a leopard

This enigmatic eighteenth-century Meissen group depicts a classical subject. A young boy, a Bacchic youth, sits beside a recumbent leopard, to which he is feeding a bunch of purple grapes. The young reveller wears a vine wreath around his head and a purple-edged yellow cloak, while in his other hand he holds a staff. The duo sit upon a gilt-edged scrollwork base.

The underside features a crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, and is impressed with the number '4'.