Lot 109
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A SÈVRES GROUP LES MANGEURS DES RAISINS

Details
A SÈVRES GROUP LES MANGEURS DES RAISINS
LATE 18TH CENTURY, INCISED F TO BACK OF BASE

Modelled as a youth seated on rockwork offering grapes to his companion seated below him, a dog at their feet and a basket of grapes in his right hand (his neck and shoulder restored, minor restoration to his right hand, chips to extremities)--9in. (23cm.) high
Literature
Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967k,pl. 244

Lot Essay

First modelled in 1752 after the painting by Boucher in 1749, now in the Wallace Collection, see Préaud and Fäy-Hallé, fig. 496 for another biscuit example at the Museé de Sèvres and a discussion of the glazed and biscuit models.