Lot 71
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A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A PEASANT GIRL 'LA MOISSONNEUSE'
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A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A PEASANT GIRL 'LA MOISSONNEUSE'

CIRCA 1760, INCISED F TO BASE

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A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A PEASANT GIRL 'LA MOISSONNEUSE'
CIRCA 1760, INCISED F TO BASE
Turned to her right and holding a sheaf of wheat under her left arm, standing barefoot before another sheaf of wheat on a rockwork rectangular base (slight chip and extended crack to hem of skirt, very slight chipping to tips of ears of wheat)
8½ in. (22.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This model was originally modelled by Pierre Blondeau after François Boucher in 1752, and inspired by La Vallée de Montmorency by Charles-Simeon Favart. For a later example see Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (1994), no. 144, p. 177.

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