A LARGE RENNES FAIENCE FIGURE ALLEGORICAL OF WINTER, possibly a local Saint, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, wearing a dark blue cap, a draped yellow garment scattered allover with florettes, holding his hands and legs crossed, with a bearded saddening face, seated on a marbled rectangular plinth, beside a flaming brasero (pot à feu) on canted rectangular base (damages), second half 18th Century
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A LARGE RENNES FAIENCE FIGURE ALLEGORICAL OF WINTER, possibly a local Saint, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, wearing a dark blue cap, a draped yellow garment scattered allover with florettes, holding his hands and legs crossed, with a bearded saddening face, seated on a marbled rectangular plinth, beside a flaming brasero (pot à feu) on canted rectangular base (damages), second half 18th Century
circa 35.5 cm high
Lot Essay
Cf. Catalogue du Grand Palais, 1980, for a discussion on Rennes faïence figures, p. 191
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