Lot Essay
Modelled after the marble by Philippe Lecomte (1783), now in the Queen's bedchamber at Versailles
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A LARGE FRENCH BISCUIT BUST OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
Modelled looking to the right, with flowers in her hair, an ermine-lined cloak about her shoulders and with a portrait miniature of Louis XVI around her neck, raised on a socle above a square base--30in. high
Modelled looking to the right, with flowers in her hair, an ermine-lined cloak about her shoulders and with a portrait miniature of Louis XVI around her neck, raised on a socle above a square base--30in. high