Lot Essay
First modelled by Falconet in 1756 and loosely derived from Nicolas Cochin's Foire de Campagne after Boucher. Cf. Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, des origines à nos jours, fig. 311 and the example, together with its companion group, from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection sold in our New York Rooms on 22 March 1991, lot 125 another example together with the pendant 'La Tourniquet' was sold in these Rooms on 11 March 1996, lot 278