Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle)
1766
Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756)
Decorative Art and Design
Figure Group of the Festival at the Chateau (La fête au château) or the Model Fidelity (La fidélité modèle), 1766. Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), Etienne-Maurice Falconet (French, 1716–1791), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit); overall: 21 x 16.5 x 15.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1966.234
- Maker/Artist
- Sèvres Porcelain Factory
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)
- Medium
- unglazed, soft-paste, porcelain, biscuit
- Dimensions
- Overall: 21 x 16.5 x 15.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 'B' incised on top of base Remark: The incised 'B' indicates that the figure was made during the period from 1766-1773 when Jean-Jacques Bachelier was the director of the sculpture department at Sevres for the second time. [Donna Corbin research, entered by ckang, Feb 2022]
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1966.234
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 216A French and German
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