A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE OF THALIE, her long hair crowned with vine, loosely draped in a long flowing robe and a cloak, standing barefoot looking upwards to her left on a circular base before a tree-stump (index finger on her left hand lacking), impressed SEVRES and incised J.B. 9.m.8 for the repairer Jean Brachard and 9 March or May 1808

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A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE OF THALIE, her long hair crowned with vine, loosely draped in a long flowing robe and a cloak, standing barefoot looking upwards to her left on a circular base before a tree-stump (index finger on her left hand lacking), impressed SEVRES and incised J.B. 9.m.8 for the repairer Jean Brachard and 9 March or May 1808
30cm. high

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Jean Nicolas Alexandre Brachard, called Brachard le jeune (1775-1843)
This biscuit figure, after a model by Boizot in 1785, appears to be the only example known other than a plaster model sold Ader Picard Tajan, 10 June 1974, lot 15; the Sèvres factory posesses the model for this biscuit under the inventory number for 1789

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