Lot 114
114
A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE LE BATTEUR EN GRANGES

Details
A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE LE BATTEUR EN GRANGES
CIRCA 1755, INCISED F MARK

Standing holding a winnowing staff leaning on a treestump, a flask at his feet, on a square base (chip to jacket, top of flask missing, right wrist and top of staff restored)--8¾in. (22cm.) high
Literature
Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 247

Lot Essay

Originally modelled by Suzanne after Boucher in 1755; another example was in the Sainsbury collection, sold Sotheby's London, May 5, 1970, lot 43

Another example in the C.L. David Foundation is illustrated by Svend Eriksen, French Porcelain, Copenhagen, 1980, no. 65.