Two Chantilly white soft-paste figures with baskets (Hotteux), circa 1750-55
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Each modelled wearing long robes and carrying a basket on their back, one of Asian heritage, the other wearing a turban, 27cm and 26.5cm high (2)
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Provenance
With Simon Spero, 2008 (the Asian figure)
Literature
White, Mary, People at the Whites' House, Vol. 5, 2024, p. 38
The name hotteux or hotteuse comes from the baskets, or hottes, carried on their backs. A polychrome version of the Chinoiserie figure is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (C.392-1909).
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