细节
TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN ALTAR GROUPS, 'L'AUTEL DE L'AMITIE' AND 'L'AMOUR NOURRI PAR L'ESPERANCE'
THE FIRST 1772-1773, INCISED WITH A JB MONOGRAM FOR BACHELIER, MODELED BY BOIZOT, THE SECOND OF SLIGHLTY LATER DATE AND LIKELY ALSO A BOIZOT MODEL, INCISED III
The first with a nymph warming a heart before a columnar altar, Cupid lighting his quiver of arrows with a torch; the second group emblematic of Hope, with a maiden breastfeeding a putto standing on an altar of Love, each altar applied with garlands of roses and raised on a rectangular base
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) high (2)
来源
Property of an American Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 2008, lot 216 ('L'Autel de L'Amitié').
Anonymous sale; Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, 11 June 2002, lot 5 ('L'Amour Nourri par l'Espérance').