Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Bust of Louis XV
- Year
- circa 1762-circa 1763
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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11.0 x 8.9 x 6.1 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.195
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The bust is from a Sèvres model introduced c1759, but is of hard-paste porcelain and bears the signature of a member of the Hannong family. Thus the piece appears to be the only known surviving example of the experiments made by Paul-Antoine Hannong at Sèvres in 1762–63 to demonstrate the efficacy of the hard-paste recipe he was trying to sell to the factory at that time.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 108, 109 (colour illus.). cat.no. 148
