A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE FRENCH COURT FIGURES

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE FRENCH COURT FIGURES
Early 18th century
He standing before splash-glazed rockwork with hat in hand, slightly turned with smiling expression, wearing a belted coat decorated with clouds and a loosely tied white scarf round his neck, she with hands held forward and serene smile, an iron-red and gilt necklace round her neck and her hair dressed la Fontanges in tight curls with a white mantle, both with black shoes and supported on flat bases
8.7/8 and 9.1/8in. (22.5 and 23.2cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See D.S. Howard and J.S. Ayers, China for the West, p. 580, for a very similar pair from the Mottahedeh collection. The authors also discuss the Bonnart engravings from his Personnages de Qualit 1600-1715 series of French noble figure types which probably provided the source for these and the other related models.