DESPREZ Barthélémy - Lot 12

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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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