A Sevres white biscuit group of "Marchands de plaisirs"

CIRCA 1760, INCISED REPAIRER'S B MARK TO TOP OF BASE

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A Sevres white biscuit group of "Marchands de plaisirs"
Circa 1760, incised repairer's B mark to top of base
Modelled by E-M. Falconet, with two farm-boys and a farm-girl playing with a dial on a cylindrical pedestal, one boy seated on straw, his staff and dog at his feet, the farm-girl holding her apron, her other hand resting on the dial, a basket with cloth and fruit behind her, on a shaped circular rockwork mound base (fruit from basket, ribbon of her left shoe and part of his staff lacking, slight chipping to ribbon of seated boy's back)
5.7/8 in. (15 cm.) high

Lot Essay

The subject is taken from the engraving by Charles-Nicolas Cochin of Franois Boucher's painting Country Fair, which includes the group of children playing Le Tourniquet (or hazard).

Cf. the similar example from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection sold in our New York Rooms on 21st March 1991, lot 125 (part).

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