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Provenance:
Simon Spero 2004
Garrick Bond Collection
Illustrated in Ceramics of Vauxhall, ECC 2007, p.92, no.169. Another similar group was sold by Bonhams, 10 September 2008, lot 238 and another is illustrated by Frank Tilley, Teapots and Tea (1957), fig 187. Although quite naively modelled, this group appears to be based on a Meissen original, probably via Bow. The Meissen and Bow models are illustrated by John Mallet, Two Children and a Fish, The French Porcelain Society Journal, Vol I, 2003, figs 1 and 8. Mallet suggests the ultimate source is one of the fountains in the Théâtre d'Eau at Versailles, made in 1672 by Jean-Baptiste Tuby after a design by Le Brun and engraved by J Lepautre in 1677. Another version of the group was made at Chelsea clearly inspired by the same source but via a slightly different route.