French Soft Paste Porcelain Figural Group
Auction Date: October 18, 2024
Sold for: $1,260
Lot: 3311
Attributed to Sceaux, France.
Circa 1750.
Featuring three figures: front, center, a seated woman with bicorne hat, and ruff. To the left, a seated attendant offering her sweets. To her right, rear, her partner, seated in the crotch of a tree trunk, in rear. Painted in a limited polychrome palette of puce, yellow, green, brown, and crimson red. After Commedia del Arte imagery.
Not marked.
Approximate dimensions: 6 1/2 H. x 7 1/2 W. x 6 3/4 D..
Provenance: Historic Filoli Estate, Woodside, CA.
Bicorne hat with broken ends reglued and professionally over-painted. Loss to feather in cap, left hand figure. Minor chips to this figures coat hem. Hands to both male figures fired separately and the hands on right hand side probably replaced. Minor surface wear. The base with several firing cracks, as made.
Notes: Christies London offered a figure of a Chinaman, in similar vein. That example was lot 31, Magnificent French Furniture and Works of Art, December 12, 200. The figural group being offered here also has aspects reminiscent of Chinoiseries, but also represent a common vernacular subject.