CIRCA 1760, INCISED D

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A SEVRES BISCUIT FIGURE OF AN EGG SELLER (LA COQUETIERE)
Circa 1760, incised D
The young girl holding out her apron filled with eggs, a covered jar of eggs at her left, a rolled scarf atop her kerchiefed head as a stabilizing base on which to balance the jar
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1989, lot 233.

Lot Essay

The present figure of a girl was modeled by Falconet after an engraving by F. Joullaine of the painting by François Boucher of 1751 entitled La Petite Laitière. See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. ii, p. 609.

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