CIRCA 1757-66

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A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT PASTORAL GROUP OF 'LA VACHE'
CIRCA 1757-66
Modelled with a milkmaid crouching by a cow, milking its udder with a pail below, an empty pail nearby, the reverse with a farm boy feeding the cow with bundles of hay, on a rockwork base strewn with hay (minor chipping to tips of horns, cow's left ear possibly restuck, slight firing cracks around other ear and horns, pail handles lacking, most probably from time of manufacture, firing cracks)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high

Provenance

Elizabeth Parke Firestone; Christie's, New York, 21 March 1991, lot 130.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example, the factory and model and a terracotta example see Marie-Noëlle Pinot de Villechenon et al., Exhibition catalogue, Falconet á Sèvres ou l'art de plaire, 1757-1766 (Paris, 2001), pp. 142-3, cat. nos. 75a-b (all three illustrated on p. 80) and p. 107, pl. 28c-d for Varin's engravings of this subject after Boucher's drawings, Á la ferme. See Rosalind Savill 'François Boucher and the porcelains of Vincennes and Sèvres' Apollo, CXV, pp. 163 and 169, no. 12.

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