Lot 110
110
SÈVRES GROUP LA LEÇON DE FLÛTE OU LE FLÛTEUR BOUCHER

Details
SÈVRES GROUP LA LEÇON DE FLÛTE OU LE FLÛTEUR BOUCHER
LATE 18TH CENTURY, INCISED F MARK

Modelled as a youth teaching his companion to play the pipe, a basket of flowers to his left and a rose bush to her right, a dog and a lamb at their feet (his neck restored, her toe and one ear of lamb missing, chipping to foliage)--9in. (22cm.) high
Literature
Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 243

Lot Essay

First modelled at Vincennes in 1752, it was taken from René Gaillard's engraving L'Agréable leçon after the painting of the same title exhibited at the Salon of 1748. For the engraving see
Pierrette Jean-Richard, op. cit., fig. 1029 and S. Ducret, Keramik und Graphik, fig. 214.