Well, actually it's happened because of the offer of Sir Watkin Basset to swap the silver cow-creamer for Anatole (The Code of the Woosters):
"She rose, and moved restlessly to the mantelpiece. I could see that she was looking for something to break as a relief to her surging emotions - what Jeeves would have called a palliative -and courteously drew her attention to a terra cotta figure of the Infant Samuel at Prayer. She thanked me briefly, and hurled it against the opposite wall".

Although I'm not sure how one statuette turned into two. Maybe something to do with English/American versions...