18/12/24 – Acquisition – Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon – Patience is the mother of virtue, must say the Versailles teams who saw an impressive Sèvres porcelain biscuit escape in the spring whose reappearance caused an event at the Hôtel Drouot: then estimated at €20/30,000 by the expert Maxime Charron, he was snapped up at Auctie’s for €170,000 hammer – €217,600 including fees – and therefore exceeded cheerfully the means provided by Versailles, an emissary of which was in the room and could just see the auctions soar. However, luck ends up smiling since it only took a few months to see this model on the market again: a new copy opportunely appeared during a sale (see the news item from 16/12/24) at Artcurial , in time for Christmas!
- 1. Royal Manufacture of Sèvres, based on a model attributed to Josse-François-Joseph Le Riche (1741-1812) under the direction of Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809)
The Emperor of Chinaaround 1776
Hard porcelain biscuit – 40 cm
Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon
Photo : Artcurial
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- 2. Royal Manufacture of Sèvres, based on a model attributed to Josse-François-Joseph Le Riche (1741-1812) under the direction of Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809)
The Emperor of Chinaaround 1776
Hard porcelain biscuit – 40 cm
Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon
Photo : Artcurial
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See the image on his page
Appraised by Cyrille Froissart, it was proposed with a reasonable estimate, or at least more coherent, which it thus slightly exceeded to see itself awarded for €88,000 hammer – or €120,000 with costs – then immediately pre-empted for the Palace of Versailles, whose readers The Art Tribune are familiar with the dynamic policy of enriching the collections of…
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