CIRCA 1765, THE SECOND WITH AN INCISED F AT THE BACK

细节

A PAIR OF SÈVRES BISCUIT GROUPS OF LE BAISER DONNÉ AND LE BAISER RENDU
Circa 1765, the second with an incised F at the back
Modelled 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
7½in. (19cm.) high (2)

来源

Maurice Fenaille, sale Paris, 12 June 1941, lot 45
Elizabeth Parke Firestone, Christie's New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 143

出版

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

展览

Copenhagen, L'Art Français de XVIII siècle, 1935

拍品专文

The present groups were first modelled by Etienne-Maurice Falconet in 1765. Based the play by Taconet of the same title which was performed at Versailles 19 May 1770 upon the occassion of the Dauphin's marriage, the groups were executed by Sèvres for about the next twenty years. See Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, nos. 147/148 for an indepth discussion of the models which sold in 1765 for 144 livres each.

See Marcel Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, Paris, 1978, p. 230, fig. 314 for a similar example of the present model.