CIRCA 1770, THE PORCELAIN 1767-1773 AND INCISED WITH SCRIPT JB MONOGRAM FOR JEAN-JACQUES BACHELIER

Hebé, modeled for Sèvres by Etienne-Maurice Falconet in 1767, was taken from a model by Jacques-François-Joseph Saly exhibited at the Paris salon of 1753. A six-foot pierre de Tonnerre example was acquired by Mme de Pompadour for her château, Bellevue. Hebé was conceived as a pendant to 'Flora', modeled by Falconet for Sèvres in 1761. A statuette of Hebe with an ormolu base is found in the Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C. and illustrated in L.P.Arend, Sèvres Porcelain at Hillwood, p. 43, fig. 22.