Lot 16
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AN OVAL PSEUDO-SÈVRES BISCUIT PORTRAIT OF 'LA PRINCESSE DE LAMBALLE', her profile naturalistically modelled in relief with a flower in her hair, the background blue, inscribed with her name, with gilt plaster frame

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AN OVAL PSEUDO-SÈVRES BISCUIT PORTRAIT OF 'LA PRINCESSE DE LAMBALLE', her profile naturalistically modelled in relief with a flower in her hair, the background blue, inscribed with her name, with gilt plaster frame
the portrait 32 x 42 cm
the frame 47 x 65 cm

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Marie-Thérèse de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe, former confidant of Marie-Antoinette, born in Turin September 8, 1749 and assassinated in Paris September 3, 1792 during the massacre in la prison de la Force.

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