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TWO MENNECY BISCUIT FIGURE GROUPS OF TWO CHILDREN PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS

CIRCA 1750, INCISED D,V MARK TO BOTH

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TWO MENNECY BISCUIT FIGURE GROUPS OF TWO CHILDREN PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS
Circa 1750, incised D,V mark to both
The first modeled in the round, the little boy playing a violin the second with the young suitor offering his seated companion a flower
The first 7 in. (18 cm.) high; the second 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 2-3 December 1992, lot 137

Lot Essay

For a group similar to the musicians enriched in colors, see Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, pp. 67-70, nos. 38-40.

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