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TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURES OF PUTTI EMBLEMATIC OF 'SUMMER' AND 'WINTER' ON SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PEDESTALS

CIRCA 1751-1757, BOTH INCISED JB FOR BACHELIER, THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1840

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TWO SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURES OF PUTTI EMBLEMATIC OF 'SUMMER' AND 'WINTER' ON SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PEDESTALS
CIRCA 1751-1757, BOTH INCISED JB FOR BACHELIER, THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1840
Summer carrying a sheaf of wheat, a sickle between his feet; Winter clutching some faggots and pulling his cloak around him, a broken brazier at his feet, the rectangular pedestals painted with exotic birds in gilt foliate cartouches
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, the figures; 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high, overall (2)

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Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1993, lot 8.

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Lot Essay

Among the earliest biscuit figure models manufactured at Sèvres, the group of putti modeled as the four seasons date from circa 1746 or 1750. Cf. E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Paris, 1913, pl. 2, no. 282 and 340. A set of all four seasons was sold in The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, Christie's, New York, 21 March 1991, lot 151.

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