A SÈVRES BISCUIT BUST OF MADAME DU BARRY after Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, her hair elaborately curled with incised ringlets and cascading onto her left shoulder, her head half-turned to her left, her breasts enveloped in flowing drapery held by a diagonal sash, on a circular spreading socle (slight crack to neck at back, chips to edge of drapery, and her right shoulder, chip to one curl and rim chips to base of socle), incised 2 to back of bust, the socle incised da in script, circa 1771

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A SÈVRES BISCUIT BUST OF MADAME DU BARRY after Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, her hair elaborately curled with incised ringlets and cascading onto her left shoulder, her head half-turned to her left, her breasts enveloped in flowing drapery held by a diagonal sash, on a circular spreading socle (slight crack to neck at back, chips to edge of drapery, and her right shoulder, chip to one curl and rim chips to base of socle), incised 2 to back of bust, the socle incised da in script, circa 1771
34cm. high

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Another example apparently modelled either by Pajou or Lemoyne is in the Musée National de Céramique at Sèvres, inv. no. 6704 having a different hair style from the example modelled by Lemoyne in 1771, an example of which is in the Public Library at Versailles, see Émile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIII^e siècle, vol. II, no. 38; this bust was produced in two sizes

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