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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PASTORAL FIGURE GROUP
Lot 351

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PASTORAL FIGURE GROUP

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED MODEL NO. 2870, IMPRESSED 147

Closed15 April 2011

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PASTORAL FIGURE GROUP
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED MODEL NO. 2870, IMPRESSED 147
Modeled after Boucher's Le pasteur galant with a shepherd and shepherdess seated before a ruin, two sheep and a hound at their feet, on a gilt enriched rocaille molded base
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) high

Specialist note

See P. Jean-Richeard, L'Oeuvre Gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, p. 316, pl. 1313 for an engraving of this subject by André Laurent.