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A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN SCENT-BOTTLE FIGURES OF GIULIA GRISI AND MARIO, the opera singers standing in theatrical pose wearing ermine-lined white robes enriched with dense gilt scrolls and flower-heads, she wearing a 'jewelled' head-dress and holding a book, he wearing a plumed hat and holding a sword, on mottled green and brown circular bases and on high footed waisted square pedestals painted with flowers and moulded with scrolls (he with hairline crack underneath base, slight wear to gilding), circa 1850
19¾in. and 21in. (50cm. and 53.5cm.) high (2)
19¾in. and 21in. (50cm. and 53.5cm.) high (2)