A Vincennes figure of "La Batteuse de Beurre"

CIRCA 1755, INCISED F TO BASE

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A Vincennes figure of "La Batteuse de Beurre"
Circa 1755, incised F to base
Modelled as a dairymaid standing paddling a butter-churn at her side, a pan of butter on the ground before her, on a square base (restoration to back right hand corner of base, hairline crack around base of churn, chips to reverse of overskirt, firing faults)
8½in. (21.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

First modelled by Fernex, after Boucher, in 1754.

Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op. cit. (1909), fig. 103, and Ruth Berges, 'Soft Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Sèvres', The Connaisseur, pl. 248.

A similar figure from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold by Christie's New York on 21 March 1991, lot 115.

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