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A PARIS GILT PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN OTTOMAN COUPLE, the veiled lady in green dress and pale blue jacket sits coyly holding a mirror in her lowered hand while a bearded man in rich red and blue robes imperiously lifts the side of her veil to reveal her gently blushing face, on rectangular floral-pattern podium, signed underneath 'F B Brevité, Fournisseur du Roi, Medaille d'Or Exp 1844', circa 1860, 12¼in. (31cm.) high, and A PAIR OF SIMILAR FIGURES showing a bearded oriental in ornate robes and a lady in Ottoman dress of pantaloons and low-cut wide-sleeved top, both wearing turbans with cylindrical hole to support a candle, each on square podium, circa 1860, 13in. (33.2cm.) high (3)