A pair of French porcelain figures of child musicians, the porcelain circa 1760, the decoration later

modelled as a young boy and girl seated on a rocky mound beside a tree stump, he holding castantets, his companion beating a tabor, each wearing brightly coloured costumes, interlaced LL marks in blue,

Each figure with later painted decoration. The figure of a boy, probably broken through base with visible discoloured over-paint to rockwork, associated restoration to tree stump. Restoration to castanets; The figure of a girl, with firing cracks to base, restoration to tree stump and each drumstick. Minor losses to gilt bow in hair.
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