A FRENCH EARTHENWARE GROUP OF 'LA NOURRICE'

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH EARTHENWARE GROUP OF 'LA NOURRICE'
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Probably designed by Guillaume Dupré in collaboration with the atelier of Claude Berthélemy, modelled as a seated wet nurse holding a suckling child wrapped in swaddling
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

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The Spitzer Collection, 1893, Vol. 11, P. 157, No. 59, lot 650
The Newall Collection, sale Christie's, June 1922
The E.G. Raphael Collection, No. 521
The property of Mrs Joan Temple, sale Christie's London, 13 October 1958, lot 127

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This group was originally believed to have been by Bernard Palissy but has since been re-attributed to the atelier of Claude Berthélemy (1555-1626), who established a workshop at Fontainebleu in circa 1580 under the patronage of Henri IV. Here the dauphin Louis de Bourbon purchased a number of figures, the details of which were recorded by the court physician, who noted that a pottery figure of a nurse was given by the dauphin to the daughter of Madame de Montpensier on 24th April, 1608.

Two examples of this group are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one formerly in the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (Accession Number 17.190.2057) and the second from the Emma A. Sheafer bequest (Accession Number 1974.356.303).

Porcelain copies of this group were made in the mid-18th century by the Chelsea and Liverpool (Chaffers) factories.