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PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION
A PAIR OF SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURES, 'LE PETIT PATISSIER' & 'LA PETITE ACHETEUSE TENDANT SA PIECE',
CIRCA 1757-1766, THE FIRST INCISED WITH A HEART, THE SECOND WITH AN F FOR FALCONET,
Details
A PAIR OF SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURES, 'LE PETIT PATISSIER' & 'LA PETITE ACHETEUSE TENDANT SA PIECE',
CIRCA 1757-1766, THE FIRST INCISED WITH A HEART, THE SECOND WITH AN F FOR FALCONET,
modeled after Boucher as a young boy selling pastries and a young girl extending the coin in her right hand to the seller, a pastry in her left
5½in. high, the larger (2)
CIRCA 1757-1766, THE FIRST INCISED WITH A HEART, THE SECOND WITH AN F FOR FALCONET,
modeled after Boucher as a young boy selling pastries and a young girl extending the coin in her right hand to the seller, a pastry in her left
5½in. high, the larger (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 February 1997, lot 243 (La petite acheteuse)