A bronze group of two ducks

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A bronze group of two ducks
on a naturalistic base modelled with a frog, cast after a model by Auguste Nicolas Cain, signed CAIN on the base, French, 19th century -- 4½in.(11.5cm.) wide
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Cain, Auguste Nicolas 1822 - 1894. His best known work is the statue of Duke Charles of Brunswick for Geneva (1879) but during the period 1846 - 1868 he also modelled a great many small bronzes of animals and birds.

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