FIGURES OF CUPID AND PSYCHE were fashioned in the black basalt which Wedgewood deemed suitable for evoking the semi-matt surface of ancient pottery and the delicacy of carved reliefs. The 19th century taste for traditional antiques made small bronze figures ideal for the furnishing of rooms. Caneware, cane coloured naturally and 'rosso antico', ancient red also became popular furnishing idioms.Etienne-Maurice Falconet made these figures at the Sevres porcelain factory in 1757 originally from marble and then unglazed porcelain the following year.