A Vincennes biscuit figure of 'La Marchande de Crème'

CIRCA 1755, INCISED DIVIDERS MARK TO BASE

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A Vincennes biscuit figure of 'La Marchande de Crème'
Circa 1755, incised dividers mark to base
The street vendor with her left arm extended and holding a pot of cream, the oval covered tray at her side filled with similar pots and balanced on a tree-trunk, on a shaped hexagonal base (neck and left arm restored, restoration to fingers to right hand, chips to foliage)
8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

First modelled by Suzanne, after Boucher, in 1755.

Cf. Émile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil des Modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle (1909), fig. 406.

A similar figure from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 118.

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