A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF A SATYRESS AND TWO BABY SATYRS, IN THE LOUIS XV STYLE, the satyress sitting on a rock playing a pipe, two baby satyrs dancing at her feet, inscribed CLODION (repairs to limbs and pipe)--14½ in. high, on ormolu-mounted veined green marble swivel base and fitted brass-mounted glass dome

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A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF A SATYRESS AND TWO BABY SATYRS, IN THE LOUIS XV STYLE, the satyress sitting on a rock playing a pipe, two baby satyrs dancing at her feet, inscribed CLODION (repairs to limbs and pipe)--14½ in. high, on ormolu-mounted veined green marble swivel base and fitted brass-mounted glass dome

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Cf. A. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992, cat. no. 78 for the model by an unknown artist now in the musée national de la Renaissance, Ecouen conceived in the style of Clodion on which the present example is based.

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