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Source Description
Over a period of three years, designs for 17 young children involved in various activities were issued by sculptor Étienne-Maurice Falconet after which they were regularly reproduced as porcelain figurines. This figure, who pulls back a slingshot, would have been modeled after one of these designs. Decorative figurines like these were often included in elaborate dining services to be placed about a table along with the usual tureens and tableware.
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Document identity
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136566
label
Figure of a Mischief Maker
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Source metadata
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136566
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object
title
Figure of a Mischief Maker
description
Over a period of three years, designs for 17 young children involved in various activities were issued by sculptor Étienne-Maurice Falconet after which they were regularly reproduced as porcelain figurines. This figure, who pulls back a slingshot, would have been modeled after one of these designs. Decorative figurines like these were often included in elaborate dining services to be placed about a table along with the usual tureens and tableware.
date
1766
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80030570
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304711
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Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 11.8 x 6.1 x 7 cm (4 5/8 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
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France, Sèvres
accession
1961.13
Source extras
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Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
tombstone
Figure of a Mischief Maker, 1766. Etienne-Maurice Falconet (French, 1716–1791), Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 11.8 x 6.1 x 7 cm (4 5/8 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1961.13
collection
Decorative Arts
relatedWorks
id
136555
description
Figure of a Bird Charmer, 1764–66. Manufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), Etienne-Maurice Falconet (French, 1716–1791). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 12.1 x 8.3 x 5.8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1961.12
didYouKnow
Thirty-one figures modeled after Falconet’s series were included in the dinner service given by French King Louis XV to Christian VII, King of Denmark, in 1768.
citations
citation
Bourgeois, Émile. <em>Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle</em>. Paris: Goupil, 1909.
page_number
vol. 1, p. 45; vol. 2, p. 11
citation
Bourgeois, Émile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard. <em>Le biscuit de Sèvres: recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle</em>. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1913.
page_number
no. 435, pl. 10
citation
Réau, Louis. <em>Etienne-Maurice Falconet</em>. Paris: Demotte, 1922.
page_number
p. 264-65, 513-14
citation
<em>Les Oeuvres de la manufacture nationale de Sèvres</em>. Vol. 1, <em>La sculpture de 1738 à 1815</em>. Sèvres: Manufacture nationale, 1932.
page_number
p. 15, no. 453
citation
"Year in Review." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> (November 1961).
page_number
p. 243, no. 21
citation
Musée national de céramique. <em>Sèvres, Musée national de céramique: nouvelles acquisitions, 1979-1989</em>. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989.
page_number
p. 171, no. 243
citation
Horvitz Roth, Linda, and Clare Le Corbeiller. <em>French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection</em>. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000.
page_number
p. 360-61
citation
<em>Falconet à Sèvres, 1757-1766, ou, L'art de plaire</em>. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001.
page_number
p. 125-30
creditline
The Norweb Collection
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:58:19.282000
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136566
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
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male
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