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Lot 437

A white Orléans group emblematic of the Arts, circa 1765

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£700 - £900

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A white Orléans group emblematic of the Arts, circa 1765

Modelled in a pyramidal shape with four boys seated on pierced rockwork and holding symbols of the Arts, 23cm high (some restoration and small losses)

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See Cyrille Froissart, The Orléans Porcelain Manufactory: its production of soft paste groups and figures, in The French Porcelain Society Journal, II (2005), pp. 47-93 for a discussion on the groups and figures produced at the Orléans factory. A similar group emblematic of the seasons is in the collection of the Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres, illustrated by Froissart, p.58.

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