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Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces
c. 1768–1778
manufacturer
(French, est. 1756)
after a design by François Boucher
(French, 1703–1770)
Overall: 25.4 x 12.8 x 14 cm (10 x 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1966.235
Location: 216A French and German
- R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Cat. No. 72, repr. p. 68Bourgeois, Émile. Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Goupil, 1909. Vol. 2, p. 12, pl. 28Bourgeois, Émile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard. Le biscuit de Sèvres: recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1914. no. 597, pl. 8Réau, Louis. Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Paris: Demotte, 1922. Mentioned: P. 270, Vol. 1Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Les oeuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Vol. 1, La Sculpture de 1738 à 1815. Paris: Ministère d'état chargé des affaires culturelles, 1932. p. 11, no. 90Birjukova, Nina. Figurines et Groupes en Porcelaine des Manufactures Francaises du XVIIIe Siècle. Leningrad: Ermitaž, 1962. Mentioned: P. 293, no. 40; Reproduced: no. 60Schlumberger, Eveline. "Pourquoi certains collectionneurs reprennent goût au biscuit de Sèvres." Connaissance des Arts (April 1962). p. 51, fig. 3Lee, Sherman, E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7(September 1966): 181-284. Mentioned: P. 277, no. 19; Reproduced: P. 227, fig.19 www.jstor.orgBerges, Ruth. "Soft-Paste Biscuit Figures from Vincennes and Sèvres." Connoisseur, vol. 166, no. 669 (November 1967). p. 194Dal Carlo, Elisabetta. Le porcellane dell'ambasciatore. Venezia: Arsenale, 1998. p. 160-61Birioukova, Nina, and Natalia Kazakevitch. Sevrskiĭ farfor XVIII veka: katalog kollektsii. Saint Petersburg: Izdateĺstvo Gosudarstvennogŏ Ėrmitazha, 2005. p. 426-47, no. 1319
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