TWO SÈVRES FIGURES LA FILLE AU FRUITS AND A SEATED BOY EATING CREAM LATE 18TH CENTURY, SHE WITH INCISED B AND HE WITH INCISED COMPASS

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TWO SÈVRES FIGURES LA FILLE AU FRUITS AND A SEATED BOY EATING CREAM LATE 18TH CENTURY, SHE WITH INCISED B AND HE WITH INCISED COMPASS

The girl seated with fruit in her lap and with a basket of fruit beside her (most of fruit in basket missing); the youth seated spooning cream from a pot (lacking spoon, chip to base)--5¼in. (12.5cm.) and 4¾in. (12cm.) high, respectively

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The girl modelled by Falconet after Boucher in 1757; the boy apparently unrecorded in the literature