拍品的状况可能存在极大差异，而由于其性质使然，拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。

The wood with natural grains and irregularities. Some surface dirt present. Rubbing at the high points. Cracks in the wood grain on the left and right sides of the base. Evidence of prior inactive insect activity particularly near the base and up the back. Vertical crack on the back side at the height of the waist with an adjacent possibly drilled hole. Vertical crack on the right side of the far left of the sleeve (proper right arm). Reattachment of a one inch chip of the edge of the sleeve under the proper right arm and an adjacent one inch repair. Crack in the right wrist of the infant. Loss of the left forefinger of the girl. Small spots of retouching on the proper left thumb, atop the head of the main figure, and the cloak behind her proper left shoulder. Short vertical cracks on the cloak on the proper left side and a notched loss on the cloak near the right hand of the girl. Dots of retouching in the face of the infant and main figure.

On the later pine base 'W259' and 'W257'.