Lot 107
107
A SEVRES HARD-PASTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF LA RECONNOISSANCE
A SEVRES HARD-PASTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF LA RECONNOISSANCE

CIRCA 1790, SCRIPT LR AND X TO FRONT AND X TO SIDE OF BASE

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A SEVRES HARD-PASTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF LA RECONNOISSANCE
CIRCA 1790, SCRIPT LR AND X TO FRONT AND X TO SIDE OF BASE
Modelled by Le Riche after Augustin Pajou, the scantily draped figure standing before an altar, holding a plate before a flaming fire, on a cylindrical pedestal moulded with Hercules and the lion, on an oval base (restored through neck, to left hand fingers, edge of plate and right hand fingers, extremities of robe)
13 7/8 in. (35.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, no. 533 where the author attributes this to Boizot, however the existence of a terracotta by Augustin Pajou formerly in the Lehmann Collection signed and dated 1790 appears to be the original on which this model was based.

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