A PAIR OF SÈVRES BISCUIT BUSTS OF THE DUC AND DUCHESSE D'ANGOULÊME

DATED 10 JANVIE 21 AND 3 OCT 23, RESPECTIVELY, BLUE PRINTED INTERLACED L'S MARKS, INCISED A.B. FOR JEAN-NICOLAS-ALEXANDRE BRACHARD JEUNE, VARIOUS WORKMAN'S MARKS

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES BISCUIT BUSTS OF THE DUC AND DUCHESSE D'ANGOULÊME
Dated 10 Janvie 21 and 3 Oct 23, respectively, blue printed interlaced L's marks, incised A.B. for Jean-Nicolas-Alexandre Brachard jeune, various workman's marks
Modelled after Baron François Joseph Bosio with a bust length portrait of Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France and Louis-Antoine d'Artois, raised on a gilt-enriched cobalt-blue ground socles
10¼in. (26cm.) high (2)

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See Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, 1978, p. 308, pl. 437 for a bust of the duchesse. It is interesting to note that she was the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and that the duc was the last prince of France and son of the protector of the Dihl and Guerhard porcelain factory at the Rue de Bondy.

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