Lot 100
100
A SÈVRES FIGURE OF 'LA BATTEUSE DE BEURRE'
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
A SÈVRES FIGURE OF 'LA BATTEUSE DE BEURRE'

CIRCA 1760, INCISED F

Details
A SÈVRES FIGURE OF 'LA BATTEUSE DE BEURRE'
Circa 1760, incised F
Modelled as a dairymaid standing driving a butter-churn at her side, a bowl of butter on the ground before her, on a square base
8 5/8in. (21.8cm.) high
Literature
f. Emile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, I, Receuil de Modeles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIID siecle, fig. 103

Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 248.

Lot Essay

First modelled by de Fernex, after Boucher, in 1754, it may have been intended as a pendant to 'Le Batteur en Granges' first modelled by Suzanne the following year.

See Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, Christie's New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 115; and Svend Eriksen, The David Collection French Porcelain, Coppenhagen, 1980, pl. 66. for similar examples of the present model. See also Emile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier- Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, I, Receuil de Modeles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siecle, fig. 103 and Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 248.