Roger VIEILLARD (1907-1989) & MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SÈVRES La Pelle agricole, 1975 A sculpture. Proof in blue enamelled porcelain with gold decoration. The base in patinated brass. Signed Roger VIEILLARD 1975 in the decoration, bears the stamp of the Manufacture and a label indicating Pelle Vieillard Bleu 12.74. H. 32 cm Exhibitions : - Roger Vieillard-Anita de Caro - Beauvais, Musée départemental de l'Oise, 25 April to 15 June 1978. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event. - Vieillard à Bordeaux - Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, from 24 October to 15 December 1986. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event. - Hommage à un donateur: le graveur Roger Vieillard (1907-1989), membre de l'Institut - Beauvais, Musée départemental de l'Oise, from 2 April to 4 September 1990. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event (no. 45). Bibliography: - Anne Guérin, with the collaboration of Virginie Rault - Roger Vieillard - Catalogue raisonné, œuvre gravé 1934-1989 - Éditions Anne Guérin / Somogy Éditions d'Art / Musée de Gravelines, Paris / Gravelines, 2003. The model cited among the artist's ceramics published by the Manufacture de Sèvres, page 903. - Collective - Porcelaine de Sèvres au XXe siècle - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée national de la Céramique, Sèvres, from 7 April to 31 August 1987, published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1987. An identical work is reproduced on page 106 (ill. 257).