Lot 489
489
A LARGE SAMSON FAYENCE FIGURE GROUP OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDWARD AND KIYI PFLUEGER (LOTS 448-511)
A LARGE SAMSON FAYENCE FIGURE GROUP OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD

IN THE NEVERS 17TH CENTURY STYLE

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A LARGE SAMSON FAYENCE FIGURE GROUP OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD
IN THE NEVERS 17TH CENTURY STYLE
The Virgin standing in contrapposto holding the Christ Child against Her left hip, her robes in blue, yellow, ochre and manganese, spurious DLF monogram, the pedestal applied with winged cherub heads, inscribed along the front Santa Maria ora pro Nobis below the spurious date 1636
42 in. (106.6 cm.) high overall
Literature
Hugo Morley-Fletcher, The Pflueger Collection: Early European Porcelain and Faience as Collected by Edward and Kiyi Pflueger, London, 1993, vol.II, pp. 102-103 (as Nevers, 17th century).

Lot Essay

The present group and its base, noted in the Samson archives as "Vierge Reproduction - Vieux Nevers", were copied after the original of 1636 sculpted by Daniel Lefebvre and retained in the municipal museum of Nevers, (inv. NF.27). See Florence Slitine, Samson, génie de l'imitation, Paris, 2002, p. 59 for illustrations of both the original and of another Samson example conserved in the musée nationale de la Céramique at Sèvres.

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