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Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750

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A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, apparently a foreign traveler, and markedly a poet by the traditional laurel wreath on his head. She wears a sprigged skirt, yellow overdress with deep pink sleeves and a white apron; leaves and flowers across the lacing at her breast and hair. He wears a long, pink, yellow-lined, coat, white breeches and red over-boots with gilt on brown decorated tops, and leans across her clasped hand; a large gilt edged manuscript or folder between the figures. All in the modelling style of the Muses Modeller and the palette and painting style of the Muses painter. Heavily modelled; some splitting under base; the base unglazed with central hole. Thick white glaze, heavily applied. Measure: H. 7.0 in (17.9 cm). Provenance: Taylor collection; Simon Spero, London, April 2012. The probable source of the model is a print by Pierie Alexandre Aveline, 1702-1760, titled La Bonne Adventure after a painting by François Boucher, 1703-1770, probably for a Beauvais tapestry (see Fitzwilliam Museum, catalogue notes to that museum’s example, and Poole, Julia, and Fitzwilliam Museum, 1986, Plagiarism personified?: European pottery and porcelain figures). Other examples: (i) Rous Lench Collection, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1986, Lot #188, almost identical to the Collection example in modelling and decoration. (ii) Bradshaw, 1992, A40, as Gipsy Fortune-teller group after Boucher, circa 1752-3. (iii) Newham Collection, Gabszewicz, 2000, #76, as circa 1752, enameled in a more sombre palette. (iv) MFA Boston, Katz Collection, Savage, pl.44. (v) Freeman Collection, #196, p.127, circa 1752; possibly later decorated, the male figure described as a ‘bearded gallant’; (vi) Fitzwilliam Museum, later, circa 1756, Gift Mrs W. D. Dickson.
  • Creator:
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Width: 6 in (15.24 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Style:
    Neoclassical (Of the Period)
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  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    circa 1750
  • Condition:
    Usual firing cracks.
  • Seller Location:
    Melbourne, AU
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 48371stDibs: LU315138959673

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