Lot Essay
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.