Lot n° 12
Estimation :
180 - 250
EUR
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Result
: 200EUR
DESPREZ Barthélémy - Lot 12
DESPREZ Barthélémy
HANGING MEDALLion adorned in the center with a crystalloceram representing a profile of a marshal of the Empire in bust turned to the right.
Gilt bronze suspension ring supported by foliage.
French work from the Restoration period.
Signed "Desprez rue des Récolets n°2 à Paris".
Diameter: 8.5 cm
Desprez, sculptor at the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1773, premier sculpteur in 1780, chef des pâtes in 1786, perfected a new cameo-making technique. He left Sèvres in 1792 to set up his own porcelain cameo factory.
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