A CHELSEA GROUP OF LA NOURRICE modelled by Joseph Willems, the nurse seated on a square stool wearing a white veil tied at the back, pale-pink jacket and pale-yellow skirt with a white apron, holding the child wrapped in iron-red-ribboned pale-yellow swaddling clothes to her right breast, the rectangular base with gilt scroll ornament at the front (extended firing-cracks round the lower part of her dress and stool, slight crack to edge of base), red anchor mark on base, circa 1755

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A CHELSEA GROUP OF LA NOURRICE modelled by Joseph Willems, the nurse seated on a square stool wearing a white veil tied at the back, pale-pink jacket and pale-yellow skirt with a white apron, holding the child wrapped in iron-red-ribboned pale-yellow swaddling clothes to her right breast, the rectangular base with gilt scroll ornament at the front (extended firing-cracks round the lower part of her dress and stool, slight crack to edge of base), red anchor mark on base, circa 1755
19.5cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 14 November 1960, lot 78
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 10 December 1973, lot 182

Literature

Margaret Legge, op. cit., col. pl. p. 44, no. 56

Exhibited

Flowers and Fables, no. 56

Lot Essay

The group is mentioned frequently in the 1755 Chelsea Sale Catalogue as 'Nurse and Child'

Cf. the example from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lot 352, also Elizabeth Adams, op. cit., col. pl. VIII

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