A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 1
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 2
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 3
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 4
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 5
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 6
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 7
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 8
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 9
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII - photo 10

A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII

Starting price
£ 80 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 1250865
Lot 41 | A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII
A SEVRES WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF ‘LA NAISSANCE DU DUC DE NORMANDIE’, THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF NORMANDY, THE FUTURE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND LOUIS XVII
1785, INCISED LR FOR THE SCULPTOR AND MODELLER JOSSE-FRANCOIS-JOSEPH LE RICHE (1741-1812) TO REVERSE OF BASE
Modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot and possibly Jean-Baptiste Etienne Genest, with a female figure emblematic of French Monarchy, seated on a globe applied with fleur-de-lys, she draped in an ermine-lined cape edged with fleur-de-lys, supporting a lozenge-shaped shield applied with fleur-de-lys, a winged youth emblematic of Fecundity presenting the Royal baby, lying on a shield, applied to the underside with the arms of the Dauphin of France, a shield at his feet, decorated with the arms of Marie Antoinette, within a later glazed gilt-metal-mounted display case and a giltwood and gesso plinth base
11 ½ in. (29 cm.) high




Provenance

Presented by Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte d’Angiviller (1730-1809), Arts Administrator and Director General of the Bâtiments du Roi, to either King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette or the Duchesse de Polignac in April 1785, on the birth of Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy, the future Dauphin of France and Louis XVII.



Literature

Comte Xavier de Chavagnac and Marquise Gaston de Grollier, Histoire des Manufactures Française de Porcelaine, Paris, 1906, pp. 212 & 254.
Manufactur:Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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