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Lot 185

A large Sèvres biscuit porcelain group of 'Diane au bain', circa 1780

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A large Sèvres biscuit porcelain group of 'Diane au bain', circa 1780

Modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot, the nude goddess standing in the centre above a stream issuing from rockwork, a cloth draped around her hips and held by one of her three attendants, one hound jumping up at her and another to the side, 38cm high (firing cracks, some minor losses and re-stuck arm)

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For the model see Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIII Siècle (Paris, 1909), Vol II, pl. 64 and for a discussion of the model and illustration of the plaster example T. Préaud, La Manufacture des Lumières (2015), pp. 166 and 327.

An example is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts, another was sold at Christie's London, 12 May 2010, lot 272 and a third at Sotheby's London, 22 November 2005, lot 40.

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