Claude Michel Clodion???

Those are beautiful!! Look what I found today :

https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/528311/cherubs-playing-with-a-goat-after-clodion/

There seems to be a market for "after Clodion" sculptures .

 

Yeah, he seems to have got a lock on the revival of these putti engaged in bacchic activities or general mischief.

I have shown this elsewhere, but since you like the earrings, from my collection, a watch pin:

 

Lovely!

 

Thank you.

http://www.artvalue.fr/auctionresult--clodion-claude-michel-1738-181-l-allegorie-du-jour-3459569.htm

http://www.artvalue.com/auctionresu...738-181-allegorie-de-l-astronomie-2850597.htm

The second one is also known as La Nuit. Think whereabouts of the original are unknown. It's from the same series as the other & both represent times of day:



Clodion was given a commission to make work for a monument to Copernicus (I think, otherwise Galileo) which got taken away from him & given to Bertel Thorvaldsen. A rigmarole got going that these two reliefs were made by Clodion for the commission, hence the Allegorie de l'Astronomie title. As I recall, L'Allegorie du Jour sold for something like 34,000 euros, completely unrecognized as a copy, not original work. Things like this do not strengthen my faith in Sotheby's & other major houses.