A French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and white Carrara marble statue signed Sèvres
List: $12,800.00
A beautiful and most charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and white Carrara marble statue signed Sèvres. The statue is raised by a white Carrara marble base with an elegant rounded front and a mottled border with a... — Read More
A beautiful and most charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and white Carrara marble statue signed Sèvres. The statue is raised by a white Carrara marble base with an elegant rounded front and a mottled border with a fine beaded ormolu band below a finely detailed ground designed base where the signature is displayed. The statue depicts four charming wonderfully executed Bacchanalian cherubs playing with cymbals and vessels while draped in fur and grape leaves with a drunken goat playfully jumping up to eat the grapes out of ones hair and with a basket next to another. All original gilt throughout. — Read Less
- Item # 13239
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H: 9 in L: 9.25 in D: 6.75 in
H: 23 cm L: 23 cm D: 17 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Marble/Stone, Ormolu
- Louis XVI st. Read More
- Sèvres Read More
It was founded through the support of King Louis XV of France and at the initiative of Madame Pompadour to be located near her Château.
Due to Sèvres’ reputation for excellence and prestige, it has always attracted some of the best artists throughout history; François Boucher, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Alexandre Fragonard and August Rodin, just to name a few. Many of these artworks can be seen at the Louvre Museum and the Musée National de Céramique in France.
Initially, Sèvres created a soft paste porcelain know as Biscuit de Sèvres. In 1768 the Bordeaux chemist Villaris and Jean Baptiste Darnet discovered deposits of Kaolin on French soil. In 1771 the Royal Academy sent a report on the creation of hard paste porcelain at which time Sèvres began manufacturing hard paste porcelain.
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) was a French sculptor renowned for creating Biscuit de Sèvres models, and was the director at Sèvres from 1774-1800, followed by Alexandre Brogniart(1800-1847) and Henri Victor Regnault in 1854.
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