TWO GILT-COPPER MOUNTED SEVRES WASHED PALE BLUE BISCUIT PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS
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TWO GILT-COPPER MOUNTED SEVRES WASHED PALE BLUE BISCUIT PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS

INCISED SCRIPT Y TO THE FIRST, CIRCA 1820

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TWO GILT-COPPER MOUNTED SEVRES WASHED PALE BLUE BISCUIT PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS
INCISED SCRIPT Y TO THE FIRST, CIRCA 1820
The dipped pale blue ground with Henri IV and François 1ere in profile to right and left, each truncated at the upper shoulder
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) diameter, within original gilt-copper frames (2)

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For other examples of the portrait of Henri IV from the model of 1815 by Jean-Charles Nicolas Brachard l'aîné are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Cf. Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the Collection in the British Museum, London, 1994, no. 170, p. 204. A pair similar to the present examples, the portrait of Henri IV also with the incised B mark of Brachard, was sold Christie's South Kensington, 11 December 2003.

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