Lot 105
105
A SÈRVES BISCUIT FIGURE LE JOUER DE MUSETTE

Details
A SÈRVES BISCUIT FIGURE LE JOUER DE MUSETTE
LATE 18TH CENTURY, INCISED F TO BASE

Standing playing the bagpipes before a tree, a basket of flowers and vegetables at his feet (tips of instrument missing, minor chips to flowers)--9¼in. (23.5cm.) high
Literature
Ruth Berges, "Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 246

Lot Essay

First modelled in 1752 by Blondeau after Boucher. This figure exists in two varients with substantially different detail.

Cf. Préaud and Fäy-Hallé, fig. 492 and the glazed version lot ??? in the present sale