A PAIR OF SÈVRES BISCUIT GROUPS LA CURIOSITÉ OR LA LANTERNE MAGIQUE AND LA LOTTERIE OR LE TOURNIQUET

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES BISCUIT GROUPS LA CURIOSITÉ OR LA LANTERNE MAGIQUE AND LA LOTTERIE OR LE TOURNIQUET
LATE 18TH CENTURY, BOTH WITH INCISED F MARKS

With a boy operating a magic lantern for a girl and a small boy with a basket of fruit; and two boys and a girl and a wheel of fortune, a dog seated below (restorations to top of lantern, index finger of standing boy missing)--about 6¼in. (16cm.) high (2)

Literature

Ruth Berges, "Soft paste biscuit figures from Vincennes and Sèvres", The Connoisseur, November 1967, pl. 7, p. 198
Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 253

Lot Essay

Modelled by Falconet and loosely derived from Nicola Cochin's Foire de Campagne after Boucher, see Pierrette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, 1978, fig. 519. For La lanterne magique see Brunet and Préaud, fig. 311.