
Sophie von der Goltz
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The present lot was produced as a prix de Sèvres given to first prize winners at the Exposition Universelle of 1878. The drawing for the model's design survives in the Sèvres archives (inv. no. 2012.1.5539). Another example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 1990.238a,b).