A Sèvres biscuit porcelain group of 'La Nourrice' circa 1775

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Description

incised B..(?) 14 to top of base
19.5cm., 7 3/4 in. high

modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot, depicting a young mother seated with a baby at her breast, restraining a boy at her side, with a girl seated reading on a footstool behind her chair and a maid holding the empty cradle, a wicker basket to her side on the flat oval base

Catalogue Note

Modelled by Boizot in 1774; see E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, no.178, for another example of the model.