A LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA BUST attributed to the workshop of Clodion, her hair falling in ringlets and tied to the top, her shoulders draped with loose-fitting robes after the antique, on a turned spreading variegated marble socle, the whole supported on an ormolu-mounted blue glass plinth of concave-angled spreading form, the gadrooned top above a rosette-panelled body with foliate-trail angles, on an entrelac-cast sqare stepped base and ring-turned blue feet, with inventory mark D.W 921. 2. D.W. 921-1, 244 and label DOUANES EXPOSITION PARIS, the base probably Swedish and late 18th Century

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A LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA BUST attributed to the workshop of Clodion, her hair falling in ringlets and tied to the top, her shoulders draped with loose-fitting robes after the antique, on a turned spreading variegated marble socle, the whole supported on an ormolu-mounted blue glass plinth of concave-angled spreading form, the gadrooned top above a rosette-panelled body with foliate-trail angles, on an entrelac-cast sqare stepped base and ring-turned blue feet, with inventory mark D.W 921. 2. D.W. 921-1, 244 and label DOUANES EXPOSITION PARIS, the base probably Swedish and late 18th Century
14in. (36cm.) high

Lot Essay

A closely related pair of busts by Claude Michel, called Clodion, discussed in Clodion Exhibition Catalogue, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 17 March-29 June 1992, p. 427, fig. 251, and previously in the collection Major-General Sir George Burns, North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, were sold at Christie's House Sale, 24-6 September 1979, lot 3

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