Lot Essay
For a punch bowl decorated with this subject, which probably illustrates the meeting of Benjamin Franklin and Marie-Antoinette at Versailles in 1778, and its prototype, cf. F.and N. Hervouet and Y. Bruneau, op. cit, figs, 7.2 and 7.1, pp.140-141. M.Beurdeley, op. cit., pl.I illustrates a bull's head tureen decorated with the same subject