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A SEVRES BISCUIT BUST OF LOUIS XV
- CIRCA 1762-3, INCISED F TO BACK OF BUST, INCISED L TO SOCLE

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A SEVRES BISCUIT BUST OF LOUIS XV
CIRCA 1762-3, INCISED F TO BACK OF BUST, INCISED L TO SOCLE
Estimate
(Set Currency)
    £35,000 - £45,000
  • ($51,940 - $66,780)

Sale Information

Sale 7910
White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Vincennes and Sèvres
12 May 2010
London, King Street

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Lot Description

A SEVRES BISCUIT BUST OF LOUIS XV
CIRCA 1762-3, INCISED F TO BACK OF BUST, INCISED L TO SOCLE
Modelled by Falconet after Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, his hair en queue and half turned to the right in armour with a sash over his right shoulder, his cloak gathered about his bust and embroidered with l'ordre du Saint Esprit, on a waisted circular socle (some firing cracks to back of bust and to socle, some minute rim chips to socle)
13 in. (33 cm.) high

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Provenance

Anonymous, Etude Artcurial, Hôtel Dassault, Paris, 29 June 2006, lot 1 (catalogue illustration transposed with lot 63, in that sale).

Lot Notes

This portrait bust is the second made to replace the earlier version also modelled after a figure by Le Moyne, a close friend of Falconet. Madame de Pompadour is known to have acquired 3 versions of this figure in 1762 and 1763 (Vy 3 fol. 115 v°): livré à Mme de Pompadour le 25 juin 1762 1 buste du Roy biscuit 144 (livres); and see item 1316 in the inventory after her death from Saint-Ouen. A bust of this type, belonged to her brother, M. de Marigny, Intendant des Bâtiment du Roi, and appeared in the sale catalogue of his collection.

Cf. Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1909), vol. II, pl. 17. An example from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection was sold Christie's, New York, 21 March 1991, lot 148.

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