Pedestals such as these were normally sold in pairs as supports for small biscuit portrait busts. A similar pair also dated 1759 was in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild. Cf. Edouard Garnier, La Porcelaine Tendre de Sèvres, plate XLIV and Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, nos. C234-8