Lot 73
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A VINCENNES GLAZED WHITE FIGURE GROUP: GROUPE D'ENFANTS TENANT UN DAUPHIN
THE PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR
A VINCENNES GLAZED WHITE FIGURE GROUP: GROUPE D'ENFANTS TENANT UN DAUPHIN

CIRCA 1752

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A VINCENNES GLAZED WHITE FIGURE GROUP: GROUPE D'ENFANTS TENANT UN DAUPHIN
CIRCA 1752
Depicting two putti, one partially draped, the other not, grappling on the banks of a river with a slippery fish
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high
Provenance
with Dragesco & Cramoisan, Paris.
Literature
Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, London, 2000, p. 64, figs. 36-1, 36-2p. 63-65, figs. 36-1 The present group is an example of the smaller of the two sizes in which the model was edited. An example of the larger size on its original papier mâché rockwork base is in a private New York collection.

The subject must have proved extremely popular, as variations are known in Mennecy porcelain and in Pont-au-Choux faience fine. English factories at Chelsea and Longton Hall also produced variations. See Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, London, 2000, no. 36, pp. 63-65 for a discussion of the model, its prototypes and variations.

Lot Essay

The present rare example of this early model, based on Renaissance prototypes, is the smaller of the two sizes in which it was edited. An example of the larger size, with the noted English dealer Robert Williams in 1979, is now in a private collection. A Mennecy version of the model is in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct.

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