A PAIR OF SÈVRES GROUPS LE BAISER DONNÉ AND LE BAISER RENDU

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES GROUPS LE BAISER DONNÉ AND LE BAISER RENDU
LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE SECOND WITH INCISED F AT THE BACK

Formed as a youth kneeling to kiss his companion and as a girl kissing the cheek of a youth in whose lap she is lying, her left arm resting on his bagpipes (restoration to the hand of the girl on the first, the second with restoration to both his feet, his hat and one foot of the girl, tip of bagpipe damaged)--7½in. (19cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Maurice Fenaille, sale Paris, June 12, 1941

Literature

Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pls. 257/258

Exhibited

L'Art Français de XVIII siècle, Copenhagen, 1935

Lot Essay

Modelled by Falconet after Boucher in 1765.

The example of Le baiser donné in the British Museum is illustrated by W.B. Honey in French Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, pl. 67. For the pair see George Savage, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain, pl. 72 a & b.