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The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian

A large Sèvres Biscuit Porcelain Figure Emblematic of Summer, Circa 1787

Lot closes

April 14, 06:39 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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1,000 USD

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Description

modelled by Louis Simon Boizot (1743-1809), for a series of the Four Seasons, the figure standing holding aloft draped fabric in her right hand shading her face, her left hand clasping a vase, before large rockwork and bulrushes, upon a circular base


height 13 1/4 in.

33.7 cm

Michele Beiny, New York;

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian, 30 January 2009.

For the model see Emile Bourgeois and George Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le biscuit de Sèvres : recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1914, pl. XXXVII, no. 279.