A FRENCH WHITE BISCUIT HALF-FIGURE OF A YOUNG GIRL after a model by A. de Ranieri and formed emerging from frothy waves, the child smiling as she looks over her left shoulder and with her hair drawn into a loose chignon, wearing a tunic falling in loose folds to merge with the surf of the water (small finger on left hand lacking, chip underneath base), incised interlaced L mark and sculptor's name, circa 1880