A VINCENNES BISCUIT FIGURE GROUP OF 'LA BATTEUSE DE BEURRE'

CIRCA 1754, INCISED COMPASS MARK

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A VINCENNES BISCUIT FIGURE GROUP OF 'LA BATTEUSE DE BEURRE'
Circa 1754, incised compass mark
Modelled as a dairymaid standing driving a butter-churn at her side, a bowl of butter on the ground before her, on a square base
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Lot Essay

Modelled by Jean-Baptiste de Fernex in 1754, La Batteuse de Beurre is a reduction of a marble sculpture of this subject modeled by Gabriel-Christophe Allegrain for Mme. de Pompadour's dairy at the chateau de Crécy the previous year. See Marie-Nöelle Pinot de Villechenon, Sèvres, Porcelain from the Sèvres Museum 1740 - the Present Day, London, 1997, pp. 22-24, no. 21.

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