TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN ALTAR GROUPS, 'L'AUTEL DE L'AMITIE' AND 'L'AMOUR NOURRI PAR L'ESPERANCE'
THE FIRST 1772-1773, INCISED WITH A JB MONOGRAM FOR BACHELIER, MODELED BY BOIZOT, THE SECOND OF SLIGHLTY LATER DATE AND LIKELY ALSO A BOIZOT MODEL, INCISED III
The first with a nymph warming a heart before a columnar altar, Cupid lighting his quiver of arrows with a torch; the second group emblematic of Hope, with a maiden breastfeeding a putto standing on an altar of Love, each altar applied with garlands of roses and raised on a rectangular base
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) high (2)
TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN ALTAR GROUPS, 'L'AUTEL DE L'AMITIE' AND 'L'AMOUR NOURRI PAR L'ESPERANCE'
THE FIRST 1772-1773, INCISED WITH A JB MONOGRAM FOR BACHELIER, MODELED BY BOIZOT, THE SECOND OF SLIGHLTY LATER DATE AND LIKELY ALSO A BOIZOT MODEL, INCISED III
The first with a nymph warming a heart before a columnar altar, Cupid lighting his quiver of arrows with a torch; the second group emblematic of Hope, with a maiden breastfeeding a putto standing on an altar of Love, each altar applied with garlands of roses and raised on a rectangular base
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) high (2)
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