Live Auction 7900A View from the Spanish Steps - The Collection of Maria Angiolillo
A SEVRES LARGE WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF LA FETE DES BONNES GENS L'HEUREUX VIEILLARD
Lot 565

A SEVRES LARGE WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF LA FETE DES BONNES GENS L'HEUREUX VIEILLARD

CIRCA 1776-1785

Closed15 July 2010

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GBP 7,500

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A SEVRES LARGE WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF LA FETE DES BONNES GENS L'HEUREUX VIEILLARD
CIRCA 1776-1785
Modelled by Boizot and Le Riche, with a lady crowning a seated old man with laurels, a kneeling figure kissing his hand, with further figures, one holding an oval tablet inscribed 'SAGESSE ET VERTUS ONT ICI LE MME PRIX QUA SALENCI', a banner lying at the old man's feet inscribed 'LE BON VIEILLARD', minor damages
14 5/8 in. (37.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

Cf. Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1909, Vol. II, p. 19, pl. 57. See also Exhibition Catalogue, Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809) Sculpteur du roi et directeur de l'atelier de sculpture á la Manufacture de Sèvres, musée Lambinet de Versailles, 2001, pp. 187 and 190, fig. 13.