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A Sevres white biscuit group of Le Marchand de Plaisirs or Le Tourniquet
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A Sevres white biscuit group of Le Marchand de Plaisirs or Le Tourniquet

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A Sevres white biscuit group of Le Marchand de Plaisirs or Le Tourniquet
Third quarter of the 18th Century
Modelled by E-M. Falconet, with two farm-boys and a farm-girl playing with a wheel of fortune on a cylindrical pedestal, one boy seated on straw, his staff and dog at his feet, the farm-girl holding her apron, her other hand resting on the dial, a basket with cloth and fruit behind her, on a shaped oval rockwork base
6 in. (15.5 cm.) high
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First modelled by Falconet in 1756. The subject is loosely derived from the engraving by Charles-Nicolas Cochin of François Boucher's Foire de Campagne, which includes the group of children playing Le Tourniquet (or Hazard). See Pierrette Jean-Richard, Boucher (1978), fig. 519. Also see the similar example from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection (Part I) sold by Christie's New York on 21st March 1991, lot 125 (part), and the example sold in these Rooms on 8th November 1999, lot 140.

See Émile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, p. 6, no. 403 for an illustrated example of this model.