Technique: Moulding & shaping of the several elements forming the set. After drying the “green ware” pieces are cooked at 900°C. The pieces are glazed and fired. The pieces are painted “au petit feu” and fired again. Then, the gold is applied, and the pieces go one last time in the oven at circa 400°C. The gold is then “bruni” to obtain the shininess .
Description : Splendid pair of white bisque figures "Cupid testing an arrow" and "Cupid drawing an arrow" on rectangular porcelain bases. Great finesse of the bisques. The bases are decorated with a garland of palmettes and styled flowers in gold on a mat green ground. Signed "Dihl" on the back and marked in red under the base "Manufacture de Dihl et Guérhard à Paris".
Size: H: 30cm - W: 20 cm - D: 12,5 cm
This pair of angels recalls the high-quality biscuit figures produced by Dihl for the powerful of this world: a pair of gilded bisque angels on bases (part of the service "aux Tableaux" of Empress Josephine around 1811), in the collections of the Hermitage Museum. A version with the angels in black is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Last but not least, the unmistakable pair "Enfant lisant et Enfant dessinant" (reading and drawing children, a version is in the Musée de Sèvres) which appears on the famous portrait of Mr Dihl by Etienne Le Guay
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