A Sèvres biscuit group of 'Les Enfants Buveurs de lait'

CIRCA 1759, INCISED F AND DIVIDED TRIANGLE MARK TO THE BASE

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A Sèvres biscuit group of 'Les Enfants Buveurs de lait'
Circa 1759, incised F and divided triangle mark to the base
Modelled as two boys, the elder seated on rockwork about to drink from a bowl of milk, spilling it as the younger reaches up to get his share, a hedgehog creeping out from a box at their feet and a basket of fruit behind them, on a rocky base (handle to basket lacking)
7in. (18cm.) high

Lot Essay

First modelled by Falconet, after Boucher, in 1759.

Cf. Ruth Berges, op. cit., The Connoisseur, November 1967, pl. 5.

See Pierrette Jean-Richard, op. cit. (1978), for the derivation of the group from an engraving by Jean Daulée.

There are other examples of this group in the Wrightsman Collection (see Carl Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. IV Porcelain (1970), pl. 121) and formerly in the Sainsbury collection. Another group, from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms on 21 March 1991, lot 132.

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