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, 'La Mageuse De Bouille' and 'Le Trempeur des Mouillettes'
Circa 1757-66
Estate / Collection: The Dalva Brothers Collection
Circa 1757-66
Each depicted seated on a bench, she with a broth bowl resting on her lap, he with one arm outstretched and leaning across to share her soup, on a slab base, she with incised F for Étienne Maurice Falconet, the models by Claude Louis Suzanne after François Boucher.
Height of taller 7 1/2 inches (19 cm)
The two earliest recorded examples of the female figure appear in an inventory of January 1, 1756. Suzanne sculpted the model after a painting by Boucher, see Alexandre Ananoff, François Boucher, 1976, vol. II, no. 414, p. 103. Though obviously conceived to go together, the earliest example of the male figure does not enter the inventories until January 1, 1763, see Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Faÿ Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977-16 January 1978, p. 182.
$600 - $900
Estate / Collection: The Dalva Brothers Collection
Circa 1757-66
Each depicted seated on a bench, she with a broth bowl resting on her lap, he with one arm outstretched and leaning across to share her soup, on a slab base, she with incised F for Étienne Maurice Falconet, the models by Claude Louis Suzanne after François Boucher.
Height of taller 7 1/2 inches (19 cm)
Notes:
The two earliest recorded examples of the female figure appear in an inventory of January 1, 1756. Suzanne sculpted the model after a painting by Boucher, see Alexandre Ananoff, François Boucher, 1976, vol. II, no. 414, p. 103. Though obviously conceived to go together, the earliest example of the male figure does not enter the inventories until January 1, 1763, see Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Faÿ Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977-16 January 1978, p. 182.
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Her spoon and tip of her right little finger missing, his hand holding a piece of bread missing, chips to his hat brim and cloak.
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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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