TWO PARIS BISCUIT AND GILT INKWELLS, one modelled as Cupid emptying a barrel on a wheel-barrow into a gilt container flanked by a vase and shell, the other as Cupid with a garland of flowers seated on rockwork beside an inkwell formed as a bucket, cover and liner and an oval basketweave basket, both on gilt oval bases inscribed Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître il'est, le fût, ou le doit être. on four gilt paw feet (the first with restoration to one handle of barrow, the second with Cupid's wings lacking and slight chips to flowers), circa 1810, perhaps Dagoty
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TWO PARIS BISCUIT AND GILT INKWELLS, one modelled as Cupid emptying a barrel on a wheel-barrow into a gilt container flanked by a vase and shell, the other as Cupid with a garland of flowers seated on rockwork beside an inkwell formed as a bucket, cover and liner and an oval basketweave basket, both on gilt oval bases inscribed Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître il'est, le fût, ou le doit être. on four gilt paw feet (the first with restoration to one handle of barrow, the second with Cupid's wings lacking and slight chips to flowers), circa 1810, perhaps Dagoty
15cm. and 16cm. high (2)
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See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Paris Porcelain 1770-1850, no. 122 for a Dagoty inkwell of similar type
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