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Barbedienne casting & …
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RARE PENDULE "Bacchante", decade 1860
Barbedienne casting & …
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Lot no. 229
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RARE PENDULE "Bacchante", decade 1860
Barbedienne casting & reduction, after a model by J.B. Clésinger,
Bust of a Bacchante, very similar to the Lady of the Roses, kept at Orsay; surmounted by a circular polychrome painted porcelain case. The whole rests on a bronze and porcelain base with a cobalt blue background underlined by wide gold fillets, in the Sèvres style.
Porcelain band with rotating decoration, placed on either side of the dial. On one side, a Venus (?) with roses and on the other, a Bacchante crowned with roses, in a country landscape animated by putti.
Signed on the reverse of the Bacchante pedestal: "F Barbedienne Fondeur", the medallion of the reduction and also "J. CLESINGER".
Intended to be placed in the centre of a mantelpiece.
H. 60 cm. The hands have been changed and the mechanism needs to be revised.
Jean-Baptiste dit Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883), a "Romantic" sculptor and son-in-law of Georges Sand, caused a scandal with his Femme piquée par un serpent, an evocative marble statue dating from 1847 (Musée d'Orsay). Much appreciated, he was responsible for numerous portraits and sculptures. As for Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), associated with Achille Colas, inventor of the "reduction" process, their workshop was a real success. It is not possible to determine the origin of the porcelain without dismantling it, but it was either made in Paris or by a decorator in Sèvres.
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