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A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF 'LA FETE AU CHATEAU' OR 'LA FIDELITE MODELE'

CIRCA 1767-73, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK

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A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF 'LA FETE AU CHATEAU' OR 'LA FIDELITE MODELE'
CIRCA 1767-73, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK
Modelled with a girl seated on a rock with her right hand resting on flowers in a vase beside her, her hat at her feet, a young man kneeling on the rocks beside her, leaning forward to embrace her and taking her left hand, with a short tree-stump and flowers at the reverse, on a shaped circular rockwork base (her left little finger lacking and another chipped, chip to corner of his jacket, slight chipping to flowers and ribbons, firing cracks)
8 in. (20.4 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Marie-Noëlle Pinot de Villechenon et al., Exhibition catalogue, Falconet á Sèvres ou l'art de plaire, 1757-1766 (Paris, 2001), pp. 156-7, cat. nos. 87a-b for terracotta and biscuit porcelain versions and a discussion of the eponymous play by Favart performed at Versailles and the château de Trianon.

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