A VINCENNES BISCUIT FIGURE, 'LE BATTEUR EN GRANGES'
PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION
A VINCENNES BISCUIT FIGURE, 'LE BATTEUR EN GRANGES'

CIRCA 1760, INCISED F TO BASE

细节
A VINCENNES BISCUIT FIGURE, 'LE BATTEUR EN GRANGES'
Circa 1760, incised F to base
Modeled as a young man holding a flail in his right hand, his left hand on a tree-stump, a flagon on the ground at his feet, on a square base
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
来源
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 24 February 1997, lot 244

出版
For other examples, see Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, 1909, fig. 102; Svend Erikson, French Porcelain, Copenhagen, 1980, no. 65; Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 247; also The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; Christie's, New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 114; and Property from the Estate of Robert L. and Elise F. Burwell, Jr.; Christie's, New York, 17/18 May 2005, lot 82.

拍品专文

Paired with La Batteuse de Beurre, the present figure was first modeled by Suzanne, after Boucher, in 1755.