THE PORCELAIN 1757-1766, INCISED F MARKS FOR FALCONET, FROM MODELS BY ETIENNE-MAURICE FALCONET, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1830

The figure of Cupid was originally conceived in plaster by Falconet and exhibited in the Salon of 1755. Two years later, he completed a marble version for Madame de Pompadour. After becoming director of the Sèvres porcelain factory in 1757, Falconet adapted his model for execution in biscuit porcelain and, on the strength of its popularity, conceived a figure of Psyche four years later as its pendant.

See M-N Villechenon, exhibition catalogue, Falconet à Sèvres ou l'art de plaire, Sèvres, Musée national de la Céramique, 2001, p. 91, no. 4-5.