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Each featuring Venus standing next to Cupid on a floral garland strung column, the first with Venus holding Cupid's quiver of arrows with an urn of flowers on the column by Cupid, the second with Cupid holding his bow and rising to embrace Venus with a basket with two billing doves beside him on the column
1318 in. (33.3 cm.) high, the taller
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A related group by Manufacture de Locré et Russinger entitled L'Offrande à l'Amour featuring two maidens presenting flower garlands and a basket of birds to a single putti atop an altar is illustrated in R. de Plinval de Guillebon, Les Biscuits de Porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, 2012, p. 217, fig. 202.

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