18TH CENTURY

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A rare probably Tournai faience polychrome figure of an old seated woman
18th Century
(Vieille mégère) Naturalistically modelled in relief as an old female servant holding a jug and a beaker, seated on a stool containing a tiny animal, on a square marbled plinth
15.5cm. high

Provenance

The collection of a Belgian gentleman, Tournai

Lot Essay

None of the Tournai faience productions were marked and doubt exists as to their identification. Its faience is said to have been imitated from Strasbourg, Rouen and Delft.
This figure was very inspired by the Ligurian faience produced by Giacomo Boselli in Savona (1765).
c.f. R. Mc. Ilroy and H. Morley Fletcher, European Pottery, p. 108 ill. 9

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