CIRCA 1770, INCISED SCRIPT B FOR BACHELIER

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A SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURE OF LA BAIGNEUSE
Circa 1770, incised script B for Bachelier
Modelled after Falconet, standing turned slightly to her right, her dress partially covering her left thigh before a tree-stump with foliage, on a circular rockwork base (repaired firing crack to her clothes at back)
14¼ in. (36 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

First modelled in 1758 by Falconet, this is a reduction of a marble in the Louvre exhibited at the Salon of 1757. It was produced in three sizes and proved to be one of the most influential and enduring models of the 18th Century. The earliest example of the figures sold for 144 livres each. See E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres (n.d.), no. 91, and a similar example from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection sold, Christie's New York, on 21 March 1991, lot 133 ($9,500).

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