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Lot 165*

A Sèvres biscuit group of 'Le Sabot Cassé', circa 1760

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sèvres biscuit group of 'Le Sabot Cassé', circa 1760

Modelled by Étienne-Maurice Falconet, a seated woman with a split clog on her lap, a child seated next to her, both looking at the clog, on a rockwork base, 17.5cm high

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Provenance:
With William H. Lautz, New York;
Private collection, Seattle, acquired from the above in 1965

The model is after an engraving by Gilles Demarteau after the work 'Paysanne assise dans un paysage et enfant dormant' by François Boucher.

Other examples are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Museum, London, and the Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres, illustrated in 'Falconet à Sèvres ou l'art de plaire', exhibition catalogue (2002), no. 66.

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