A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE OF 'HEBE'

CIRCA 1770, THE PORCELAIN 1767-1773 AND INCISED WITH SCRIPT JB MONOGRAM FOR JEAN-JACQUES BACHELIER

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE OF 'HEBE'
Circa 1770, the porcelain 1767-1773 and incised with script JB monogram for Jean-Jacques Bachelier
The figure of Hebe stands in the foreground holding a jug and a goblet, behind her is an athenienne, to her right are a pair of doves, to her left a quiver and a laurel wreath, on a stepped oval base with a bead-and-laurel surround to the edges
9in. (23cm.) high, 8¾in. (22.5cm.) wide, 6½in. (17cm.) deep

拍品专文

Hebé, modeled for Sèvres by Etienne-Maurice Falconet in 1767, was taken from a model by Jacques-François-Joseph Saly exhibited at the Paris salon of 1753. A six-foot pierre de Tonnerre example was acquired by Mme de Pompadour for her château, Bellevue. Hebé was conceived as a pendant to 'Flora', modeled by Falconet for Sèvres in 1761. A statuette of Hebe with an ormolu base is found in the Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C. and illustrated in L.P.Arend, Sèvres Porcelain at Hillwood, p. 43, fig. 22.