A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE FIGURES OF MAIDENS, cast from models by Mathurin Moreau, each standing, barefooted, wearing peasant costume, one reading a book and her left arm supporting a basket, the other cradling a bird's nest in her right arm and holding flowers in her apron, each on a naturalistic circular base above a stepped spreading circular plinth, one signed Moreau. Math. hors concours and bearing the stamp MEDAILLE D'HONNEUR in a roundel and impressed to the underside LS within a star, the other signed Math. Moreau. Hors Concours and with the initials to the underside BEC, late 19th Century (2)

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE FIGURES OF MAIDENS, cast from models by Mathurin Moreau, each standing, barefooted, wearing peasant costume, one reading a book and her left arm supporting a basket, the other cradling a bird's nest in her right arm and holding flowers in her apron, each on a naturalistic circular base above a stepped spreading circular plinth, one signed Moreau. Math. hors concours and bearing the stamp MEDAILLE D'HONNEUR in a roundel and impressed to the underside LS within a star, the other signed Math. Moreau. Hors Concours and with the initials to the underside BEC, late 19th Century (2)