Lot 113
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TWO SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURES LA BERGÈRE ASSISE AND LE PORTEUR DE MOUTON

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TWO SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURES LA BERGÈRE ASSISE AND LE PORTEUR DE MOUTON
LATE 18TH CENTURY, INCISED F TO BACK OF HIS BASE

The girl a modified version of the previous lot, with flowers in her corsage and lap and wearing a hat; her companion kneeling and profering a basket containing a beribboned lamb and flowers (part of his coat-tail chipped, small chips to flowers)--about 8½in. (21.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

The female figure appears to be a later reworking of La bergère assise. Her companion first appears in 1754, modelled by Fernex after Boucher. See Préaud and Fäy-Hallé, fig. 513, and the example in the Wrightsman collection, pp. 287; and the Palazzo Pitti, no. 29.