TWO SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER AND WINTER modelled as boys, Summer carrying a sheaf of corn, scantily draped with ears of corn in his hair standing on a square plinth with corn at his back and a sickle between his feet, Winter clutching some faggots and pulling his cloak around him, standing on a square plinth with a broken brazier, both mounted on Sèvres style green-ground plinths of square section painted with birds in landscape vignettes within gilt scroll and foliage cartouches (Summer with shoulder cracked and with minor chips to ears of corn and flower, Winter with minor chip to log and little finger lacking, the plinths with slight rubbing to gilding) , the figures with incised script B marks, circa 1770, the plinths circa 1840 | Christie's

Lot 8

TWO SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER AND WINTER modelled as boys, Summer carrying a sheaf of corn, scantily draped with ears of corn in his hair standing on a square plinth with corn at his back and a sickle between his feet, Winter clutching some faggots and pulling his cloak around him, standing on a square plinth with a broken brazier, both mounted on Sèvres style green-ground plinths of square section painted with birds in landscape vignettes within gilt scroll and foliage cartouches (Summer with shoulder cracked and with minor chips to ears of corn and flower, Winter with minor chip to log and little finger lacking, the plinths with slight rubbing to gilding) , the figures with incised script B marks, circa 1770, the plinths circa 1840

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TWO SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER AND WINTER modelled as boys, Summer carrying a sheaf of corn, scantily draped with ears of corn in his hair standing on a square plinth with corn at his back and a sickle between his feet, Winter clutching some faggots and pulling his cloak around him, standing on a square plinth with a broken brazier, both mounted on Sèvres style green-ground plinths of square section painted with birds in landscape vignettes within gilt scroll and foliage cartouches (Summer with shoulder cracked and with minor chips to ears of corn and flower, Winter with minor chip to log and little finger lacking, the plinths with slight rubbing to gilding) , the figures with incised script B marks, circa 1770, the plinths circa 1840
24cm. high overall
the figures 14.5cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

First modelled by le Riche in 1769, four figures from this series from the Firestone Collection were sold Christie's New York, 21 March 1991, lot 151

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