A BOW GROUP OF THE FORTUNE-TELLER by the Muses Modeller, she wearing a puce-lined pale-yellow coat, white apron and her dress painted and enriched in gilt with flower-sprays, a garland of flowers over her shoulder and with flowers in her hair, holding out her hand to the bearded palmist wearing a pale-pink washed long-sleeved coat edged in puce and lined in pale-yellow, his iron-red boots enriched with gilding, a document lying on the ground between them, on a shaped oval rockwork base (his right fore-finger restored, small chip to base and minor chips to flowers and foliage), circa 1752

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A BOW GROUP OF THE FORTUNE-TELLER by the Muses Modeller, she wearing a puce-lined pale-yellow coat, white apron and her dress painted and enriched in gilt with flower-sprays, a garland of flowers over her shoulder and with flowers in her hair, holding out her hand to the bearded palmist wearing a pale-pink washed long-sleeved coat edged in puce and lined in pale-yellow, his iron-red boots enriched with gilding, a document lying on the ground between them, on a shaped oval rockwork base (his right fore-finger restored, small chip to base and minor chips to flowers and foliage), circa 1752
18cm. high

Provenance

Rous Lench Collection, sale Sotheby's, 1 July 1986, lot 188

Lot Essay

The model is taken from an engraving by P. Aveline called 'La Bonne Aventure' after a painting by Boucher

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 13 June 1983, lot 164; also George Savage, 18th Century English Porcelain, pl. 44 for the example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain, pl. 196

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