A Tournai figure group, c.1760, modelled with an impish figure, possibly Daphnis, playing the pan

A Tournai figure group, c.1760, modelled with an impish figure, possibly Daphnis, playing the pan pipes and seated on a rocky base above a winged putto and a Classical maiden, together with a white-glazed figure of an old man, probably emblematic of Winter, incised IL mark, and a white-glazed libation cup moulded with deer, dogs and dragons in the Chinese manner, 18cm max. (3)

The Tournai figure possibly modelled by Nicholas-Joseph-François Gauron, who left Mennecy c.1757-58 to start work at Tournai. He left the factory in 1764 and worked at European factories in Belgium and Holland, before coming to England and working for William Duesbury. Cf. Victoria and Albert Museum, Accession No. C.352.1909 for a Mennecy figure by Gauron. Also, a Tournai figure of Fire from the collection at Stourhead, Wiltshire.