Lot: 3235
Chantilly, France.
Circa 1740.
Known as Le Moissonneur and La Moissonneuse, boy and girl harvesters, each standing, opposed. Tin oxide glaze over porcelain. The male (hotteux)figure in Chinoiserie dress, including Manchurian-style robe, underskirts, hat and moustache. The female (hotteuse) figure in Western dress of the 18th Century, wearing a bodice, overskirt, petticoat, and lacy headdress. Both figures carrying hottieres, or baskets on their backs.
Approximate dimensions: Female figure: 10 3/4 H., male figure: 11 H..
Provenance: Historic Filoli Estate, Woodside, CA. Parallels: The Muse Conde has a similar pair, 2023-7-2-2, recently acquired from the Htel Drouot. The Victoria and Albert Museum has an example of the female figure, painted in polychrome enamel, C.393-1909. A similar pair is in the collections of the Cit de la Cramique in Svres, France, MNC 26359 1-2, reproduced by Genevive Le Duc, in Porcelainex000BTendre de Chantilly, 1996, p. 179. Other examples are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the David Collection in Copenhagen.
Condition: Overall condition to head and hands is very good. Each with various firing cracks to garments, and particularly toward bases. She with a shallow 2 1/2 long chip to skirt, lower left side. He with a shallow chip to hem of his tunic, rear right.
Auction Date: December 13, 2024