A FRENCH WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, the youth naked but for a garland of flowers around his head and another around his body, she wearing a robe folded across her legs and thighs, on a circular base (her right thumb lacking, chips to flowers), late 19th Century

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A FRENCH WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, the youth naked but for a garland of flowers around his head and another around his body, she wearing a robe folded across her legs and thighs, on a circular base (her right thumb lacking, chips to flowers), late 19th Century

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The model is copied from an antique marble in the Capitoline Museum, Rome It was adapted by Boizot for Sèvres and was also reproduced in parian porcelain at Minton, cf. Paul Atterbury, (ed.), The Parian Phenomenon, p. 68, Fig. 94

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