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A Sevres (hard paste) white biscuit group of Les Oies du Frere Philippe
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A Sevres (hard paste) white biscuit group of Les Oies du Frere Philippe

CIRCA 1790, SIDE OF BASE INCISED LR (?)

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A Sevres (hard paste) white biscuit group of Les Oies du Frere Philippe
Circa 1790, side of base incised LR (?)
Modelled by Boizot with two finely dressed ladies, gossiping and looking over their left shoulders with their arms embraced, on a circular plinth base (fingers of one hand and index finger of another lacking, chipping to edge of base, slight firing cracks)
105/8 in. (27 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This model was first modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1789. See Émile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, p. 36, no. 478 for an illustrated example of this model.

Boizot (1743-1809), who had studied sculpture under Slodtz in Rome, was the chief sculptor at Sèvres from 1773-1800.

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