TWO SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURES OF 'LE TAILLEUR DE PIERRES' AND 'LA BLANCHISSEUSE', circa 1896, from models by Jean-Baptiste de Fernex and Charles-Louis Suzanne, after Boucher, both modelled as children wearing 18th century dress, one a young boy smoothing the side of a stone slab, the other a young girl pounding her laundry on a rock, both on naturalistic square bases, 16cm and 17.5cm high, both impressed 'SEVRES', the boy incised '8.96 LP' (the boy with the top of his pickaxe re-stuck, the girl with minor losses and restoration to the neck, both with minor chipping to the base) (2)Literature: The Stonemason and "The Laundress" were initially manufactured in biscuit between 1754 and 1755, during which years both artists were active producing models for the Sevres porcelain factory. E. Bourgeois and G. Lechevallier-Chevignard, 'Le Biscuit de Sèvres: Recueil des modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle', vol.I, cats.113 and 569.