A PAIR OF SÈVRES FIGURES OF 'LE HÔTEUR' AND 'LA GUIRLANDE ASSISE'

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES FIGURES OF 'LE HÔTEUR' AND 'LA GUIRLANDE ASSISE'
Circa 1757

Modelled as a boy and girl seated to left and right, he holding a bunch of grapes aloft, a pannier at his side, she holding a garland in her hands, both on rockwork bases (boy with arm restored, pannier damaged and restored and lacking grapes, staining, garland lacking to girl) girl incised M to base, he with incised script B
4 3/4in. (12cm.) and 5 1/4in. (13.4cm.) high (2)

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First modelled by Falconet in 1757

Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op.cit., fig. 333, for a figure of the girl with the garland complete

A similar male figure form the Sainsbury Collection was sold Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1970

Two similar figures from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, were sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 123. The catalogue notes for that sale explain the attribution of the models to Falconet

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