Lot 152
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A FRENCH WHITE PORCELAIN GROUP OF TWO ACTORS
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A FRENCH WHITE PORCELAIN GROUP OF TWO ACTORS

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED ARROWS MARK POSSIBLY FOR THE HERBERT FACTORY, PARIS

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A FRENCH WHITE PORCELAIN GROUP OF TWO ACTORS
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED ARROWS MARK POSSIBLY FOR THE HERBERT FACTORY, PARIS
Modelled as an actor with his arm in a sling, leaning against another who supports him, with sullen expressions on their faces, each wearing long cloaks, shirts with billowing sleeves, jackets with long tails looped up under their belts, breeches and long laced boots, standing before rockwork on a flat irregularly shaped base (slight chip to nose of injured figure, slight crack at back of cloak, chip to top of base behind foot of injured figure, some losses to glaze)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The Hérbert factory produced faience from 1752 to 1755 and then acquired the recipe for soft paste porcelain from St. Cloud and subsequently the priviledge to use it. For a discussion of the factory and illustration of a coloured group of 'Les Enfants Brutus' and a Roman soldier in the white, see Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelaine de Paris, XVIII - XIXme sèicles, pp. 83-84.

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