Vintage Porcelain Figurines Trio of French Generals Hand Painted

These hand-painted porcelain figurines depict three French Army leaders with biographical details incised on the undersides of their bases. We have listed them below in the order of our photos, the incised details first in French and then in English:

DUMOURIEZ (Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez): General of the early French Revolution who won at the Battles of Valmy and Jemappes. He is wearing a deep blue tailcoat displaying his decorations and medals with gold embroidery on the collar and lapels; a red, white and blue sash at his waist; gold epaulettes and a red cockade and a white feather on his black bicorne hat covering his gray hair. His gilded sword is at his left side. 
⚜️Né à Cambrai-avec Kellermann ci Valmy le 20 Septembre 1792. Jemmapes pes le 6 Novembre 1792. Conquit la Belgique. Mourat 1823.
⚜️Born in Cambrai. With Kellermann at Valmy on September 20, 1792. At Jemappes on November 6, 1792. Conquered Belgium. Died in 1823. 

EXELMANS (Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans): Marshal Exelmans was a distinguished French soldier of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His name is inscribed on the southern pillar of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. He's wearing a cobalt blue tailcoat over a ruffled-front shirt, adorned with his medals and gold epaulettes, with his left arm resting on his sword. 
⚜️Né à Bar-le-Duc. Aide-de-Camp et ami de Murat General 1807. Suivit Murat en Espagne coplit en Angleterre 1811 Général 1812 Marechal 1851
⚜️Born in Bar-le-Duc. Aide-de-camp and friend of Murat. General in 1807. Followed Murat to Spain; taken prisoner in England in 1811. General in 1812; Marshal in 1851.
⚜️{Joachim Murat was one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most famous cavalry commanders, a Marshal of France, and the King of Naples.} 

MORTIER (Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso): French military commander and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon I, who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He's wearing the dark-blue ceremonial tunic of a Marshal of the French Empire adorned with his medals, gold bullion epaulettes, a red sash, and a Napoleonic black bicorne hat.
⚜️Né à Le Cateau-Cambrésis Engagé 1791 Adjudant 1793 Général 1799 Maréchal 1804 Duc de Trévise 1807 Commanda en Espagne 1809, en Russie 1812. Mourat victime de Fieschi. 
⚜️Born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Enlisted in 1791. Adjutant in 1793. General in 1799. Marshal in 1804. Duke of Treviso in 1807. Commanded in Spain in 1809 and in Russia in 1812. Murat: victim of Fieschi.
{Mortier was killed in an explosion during an assassination attempt on King Louis-Philipe. We were unable to translate "Fieschi."} 

These figurines were made by the Scheibe-Alsbach porcelain manufactory, founded in 1835 in Scheibe-Alsbach, Thuringia, Germany. The company is renowned for their high quality, hand-painted figurines, particularly French military leaders such as these three.  The blue underglaze mark on the bottom is a letter S with crossed with a horizontal X. The company used this mark from 1925 to 1972; these figurines probably date from the 1950's-60's.

All three are in excellent conditions, retaining the glossy enamels and gilding and, surprisingly, all the fingers, save for the very tip of Marshal Exelmans's thumb of his left hand. Each figurine stands approximately 9 1/4 inches tall on a rectangular base 2 3/4 inches by 2 1/8 inches, with weights varying from 12 to 15 ounces. 
⚜️All white spots are due to light reflections on the enamel. They are NOT damage.

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