Live Auction 14219Noble & Private Collections Part I
A LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA RELIEF DEPICTING A BACCHANTE AND SATYR
Lot 35 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JANE, LADY ABDY (LOTS 30-38 & 447-461)

A LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA RELIEF DEPICTING A BACCHANTE AND SATYR

BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN (1759-1834), DATED 1785

Closed25 April 2017

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GBP 23,750

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A LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA RELIEF DEPICTING A BACCHANTE AND SATYR
BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN (1759-1834), DATED 1785
16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) diameter, without frame

Specialist note

Joseph-Charles Marin (1759-1834) was a pupil of Clodion, and although his career straddled the divide created by the French Revolution, Marin is best known today for intimate terracotta figures of nymphs, which are entirely characteristic of the ancien régime.