A pair of Meissen paperweights with figures of seated children

A pair Louis XV gilt bronze-mounted Meissen porcelain paperweights
with figures of seated children – circa 1750

The Meissen porcelain 18^th Century

Height: 11 cm. (4 ¼ in.)     Width: 17.5 and 16.7 cm. (7 and 6 ½ in.)

Depth: 11.5 cm. (4 ½ in.)

One child playing with a bird in its cage, the other feeding grapes to a cheetah.

Provenance

Galerie Aveline & Cie, Paris, 1988

Sold Mes Jacques Martin and Gilles Chausselat, Versailles, 6 December 1998, lot 99 (illustrated on the cover of the catalogue)

Exhibited

La Folie d’Artois, Paris, Château de Bagatelle, June 1988.

Biennale des antiquaires, Paris, 1988 (illustrated in Aveline catalogue, pp. 928-929).

Literature

D. Alcouffe, La Folie d’Artois, Paris : L’Objet d’Art, 1988, pp. 190-191 (ill.)