Lot 64
64
A SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURE, 'LE JEU DE COLLIN-MAILLARD'
PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION
A SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURE, 'LE JEU DE COLLIN-MAILLARD'

CIRCA 1755, INCISED DIVIDERS MARK

Details
A SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURE, 'LE JEU DE COLLIN-MAILLARD'
Circa 1755, incised dividers mark
Modeled as a boy crouching on all fours, taking part in a game of 'Blind Man's Bluff', on rockwork base
6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 February 1997, lot 246 (#1,495)

Lot Essay

The present model was originally modeled by Suzanne after Boucher in 1755. Cf. see Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, 1909, fig. 361 and Antoinette Fãy-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, fig. 409.

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