Live Auction 2695The Opulent Eye
A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN PORTRAIT BUST OF THE QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE
Lot 89 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE PHILADELPHIA COLLECTION

A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN PORTRAIT BUST OF THE QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE

DATED 1898, IMPRESSED LOZENGE MARK, INCISED E.C.98 AND PAJOU

Closed18 April 2013

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A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN PORTRAIT BUST OF THE QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE
DATED 1898, IMPRESSED LOZENGE MARK, INCISED E.C.98 AND PAJOU
After the 18th century model by Augustin Pajou, modeled to dexter, her dress trimmed in lace beneath an ermine wrap, raised on a socle
26 in. (66 cm.) high

Specialist note

A similar 18th century model is illustrated in E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres du XVIIIme sèicle, Paris, 1909, Vol.I, p.40, nos. 410 and 411.