A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE LA MARCHANDE DE CRÈMES

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A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE LA MARCHANDE DE CRÈMES
CIRCA 1755, INCISED STAR AND F MARKS

Standing holding a pot of whipped cream in her left hand, her right holding a covered basket with similar pots, resting on a bollard (one pot missing from basket)--8½in. (22cm.) high

Lot Essay

First modelled by Suzanne after Boucher in 1755. The example formerly in the Sainsbury collection, sold Sotheby's London, May 5, 1970, lot 47 bears the identical incised marks and is almost certainly the present lot. It previously appeared in the Fenaille sale, June 12, 1941, lot 13.