Statuette in Ivory, and Objects in Gold and Silver, by Froment Meurice of Paris

Lithograph with designs by Froment-Meurice (1802-1855), French goldsmith, working in a free and naturalistic manner in the tradition of Mannerist and Baroque masters, created by J.A. Vinter and published in 1852. The lithograph shows a sculpture in ivory of a female figure wearing braids on her hair and a white, draped garment that leaves her chest partly uncovered, standing on a shell, and running besides a young angel. Behind her is a large, shell-shaped bowl on a brown trunk with stylized, green leaves, and with a handle made up of scrolling, yellow branches with stylized, green leaves and bunches of red grapes, and with white human figures, half-dressed with draping garments, and angels with white bodies and golden leaves. To the sides of the ivory statuette in the center are several smaller sculptures, each with three children: to the left, three boys wearing hoods and holding an axe and a horn on their hands; to the right, your girls holding a basket with flowers and a pair of doves in their arms. A gold-and-silver statuette with a soldier, dressed in historic army clothes, holding a spade on one hand and a lozenge-shaped shield above his head, and a golden saltcellar (?) with scrolling motifs of gold, stylized, green leaves, and blue design motifs, lie in front of the larger sculptures with children.