Vincennes-Sèvres porcelain biscuit group depicting grape eaters, c. 1755

Vincennes-Sèvres porcelain biscuit group depicting grape eaters based on a model by François Boucher.
Circa 1752-55, 18th century.
H. 9.25 in. L. 9.75 in.
The thumb of the young woman's right hand and the toe of the young man's left foot have been restored, and there are a few firing cracks on the terrace and on the young man's left arm.
For a similar model, see Emile Bourgeois, Les Biscuits de Sèvres, pl.1, no. 313; Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain, Catalog of the collections (J. Paul Getty Museum), Malibu, 1991, pp. 29-35; and for illustrations of a terracotta model and a biscuit, see Tamara Préaud and Guilhem Scherf, La Manufacture des Lumières, la sculpture à Sèvres de Louis XV à la Révolution, Dijon, 2015, pp. 50, 196, 198, and 298.