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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) BISCUIT FIGURE OF MARECHAL DE TURENNE FROM THE SERIES DE GRAND HOMMES AND PLINTH

CIRCA 1783, INCISED SCRIPT L R/19 FOR LE RICHE

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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) BISCUIT FIGURE OF MARECHAL DE TURENNE FROM THE SERIES DE GRAND HOMMES AND PLINTH
CIRCA 1783, INCISED SCRIPT L R/19 FOR LE RICHE
Modelled by Antoine Pajou, half turned to the left in full chemise, lace stock, fur-trimmed sash over a frock coat heavily buttoned and embrodiered with bands of verticle cable ornament, tied with a tasselled sash above coulottes and spurred high boots, standing beside a pillar with a crown resting on a tasselled cushion, a sword in his right hand, on a rectangular blue and gilt stepped plinth (blade of sword a restored replacement, restoration to finial of crown, minute chip to edge of pocket, slight wear to gilding)
21 5/8 in. (55cm.) high overall

Provenance

Anonymous, Christie's, London, 18 May 1999, lot 118.

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Please note that the crown is a replacement.

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Lot Essay

Louis XV's example was placed with Vauban on the chimney-piece of the Cabinet de la Pendule. They were both on gilt-copper socles. The factory sales registers record two sales, before the Revolution, of Turenne with a plinth: one to the Duc de Liancourt on 20 July 1784 for 600 livres, 1 Turenne et socle beau bleu, (Vy 9 fol. 127); and one on 3 November 1785 to the Duc de Bouillon for 480 livres, 1 Turenne et socle (Vy 9 fol. 255).

For an example of the model see Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, vol. I, pl. 42, no. 599 and an example sold in these Rooms on 4 December 1985, lot 24.

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