Lot n° 64
Estimation :
800 - 1500
EUR
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: 18 816EUR
Simon Louis BOIZOT (1743-1809) for the Manufacture de SEVRES - Lot 64
Simon Louis BOIZOT (1743-1809) for the Manufacture de SEVRES
"Les Noirs libres" or "La liberté des Nègres" (The freedom of Negroes)
Rare allegorical cookie group depicting "The Abolition of Slavery" in the guise of a couple of black people seated on a stele. The draped man wears a Phrygian cap with the revolutionary cockade (symbol of freed slaves in Roman times). The woman wears a dress revealing her breasts. She is wearing a square and plumb bob (Maconic allegory of equality).
Inscription on the base: "Me equal to you, me free too". Incised mark F or 8
Model of 1794
Height 23 cm - Width 16 cm (accidents and missing parts, old restorations)
A similar model is preserved at the "Musée du Nouveau Monde" in La Rochelle (Inv. 1983.4-2, acquired at public sale in 1983).
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