Jan 29, 2025 10:00 EST
Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture
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Pair of Sèvres Biscuit Porcelain Figures
Estate / Collection: The Dalva Brothers Collection
Circa 1757-66
So-called 'Le Petit Patissier' & 'La Petite Acheteuse Tendant Sa Piece' depicted as a young boy selling pastries from a tray resting on a tree-stump and as a young girl extending a coin in her right hand to the seller, a pastry in her left and a curious small dog at her side, on rockwork bases, the first incised with a heart, the second with an F for Étienne Maurice Falconet, after models by François Boucher.
Height of taller 5 ½ inches (13.9 cm)
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 24 February 1997, lot 243 (la petite acheteuse).
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 10-11 January 2006, sale 1615, lot 372.
$750 - $1,000
Estate / Collection: The Dalva Brothers Collection
Circa 1757-66
So-called 'Le Petit Patissier' & 'La Petite Acheteuse Tendant Sa Piece' depicted as a young boy selling pastries from a tray resting on a tree-stump and as a young girl extending a coin in her right hand to the seller, a pastry in her left and a curious small dog at her side, on rockwork bases, the first incised with a heart, the second with an F for Étienne Maurice Falconet, after models by François Boucher.
Height of taller 5 ½ inches (13.9 cm)
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 24 February 1997, lot 243 (la petite acheteuse).
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 10-11 January 2006, sale 1615, lot 372.
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
He - restored through both legs, firing line to base and tray, restoration now discolored.
She - with a firing crack to her apron, the dog’s tail missing.
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Auction: Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture, Jan 29, 2025
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Auction of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings and The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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Auction of English & Continental Silver and English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts on Wednesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle's auction on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 will offer 19th Century & Old Master Paintings & Drawings as well as The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury.
The auction onWednesday, January 29 at 10am will feature English & Continental Decorative Arts and English & Continental Silver.
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