Lot 141
141
A Sevres biscuit group of the Education de l'Amour
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A Sevres biscuit group of the Education de l'Amour

CIRCA 1763

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A Sevres biscuit group of the Education de l'Amour
Circa 1763
Modelled by Etienne Falconet after Boucher with Cupid scantily draped and resting on clouds, his quiver of arrows and roses hanging from his left wrist, surrounded by three young ladies, one seated and admiring herself in a looking glass, another reading a letter and looking up at Cupid, another examining Cupid's quiver and the fourth lady gazing adoringly at Cupid, on a rockwork base strewn with roses and an upturned oval basket and flared basket of flowers (restoration to Cupid's wings, damage to lady's hat, handles of shallow basket lacking, some repair and minor chipping to flowers and foliage)
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

A similar group was sold in these Rooms on 2nd May 1960, lot 142, and another from the Christner Collection by Christie's New York on 1st December 1979, lot 159. Also see the example illustrated in Émile Bourgeois and Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres (n.d.), Vol. I, pl. 11, no. 202, and another in Émile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siecle, Vol. II, pl. 22.

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