AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED VINCENNES GLAZED WHITE FIGURE OF A NYMPH

PERHAPS MODELLED BY LOUIS FOURNIER, THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1752, THE ORMOLU MOUNT CONTEMPORARY AND IMPRESSED TWICE WITH CROWNED C MARK

細節

AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED VINCENNES GLAZED WHITE FIGURE OF A NYMPH
PERHAPS MODELLED BY LOUIS FOURNIER, THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1752, THE ORMOLU MOUNT CONTEMPORARY AND IMPRESSED TWICE WITH CROWNED C MARK
Modelled reclining on her left side on a drape spread on the flower-strewn woodland ground, her right arm bent over her head, her left arm extended along her side, her head supported on a bale as a cushion
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high; 8 in. (20.3 cm.) long, the porcelain figure; 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) long, the ormolu mount

來源

with Dragesco & Cramoisan, Paris (as with an 18th century mount, regilt).

拍場告示

Please note: The ormolu-mount is contemporary with and original to the porcelain figure. It is not of later date as stated in the printed catalogue.

拍品專文

Various versions of a reclining nymph appear in the records for Vincennes described as Baigneuse, Naïade, Baigneuse avec Urne, etc. All depict a lithe nymph reclining nude in various poses, sometimes supported on an overturned or pouring forth water, sometimes holding up a drape to reveal herself, sometimes amidst grasses and with a dog in the guise of a huntress. Whether these models were intended to represent a specific goddess, a water nymph or simply a decorative nude reclining figure is not entirely clear.

See Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Fay-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes: Les Origines de Sèvres, Paris, 1977, figs. 454-457 and Svend Eriksen & Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, 1987, pp. 200 et seq., and pl. 12; also Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21-22 June 1999, lot 203 and Anonymous sale; Cheffins, Cambridge, 14 May 2002, lot 246 for examples recently on the art market.