A FRENCH FAIENCE GARDEN-SEAT modelled as a playful grinning monkey eating a cactus leaf, lying on his back and with his feet supporting a large pierced leaf forming the seat, his legs entangled around the leaves of the plant and his tail entwined around a scaly orange stalk, on a rocky base moulded with leaves and applied with a cactus plant, painted in bright shades of green and orange (restoration to edge of leaf forming the seat, slight restoration and chips to base), incised R, circa 1900