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Jun 28, 2019

Figure of a Bird Charmer

1764–1766

manufacturer

Sèvres Porcelain Factory

(French, est. 1756)

model by

Etienne-Maurice Falconet

(French, 1716–1791)

France, Sèvres, 18th century

Unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit)

Overall: 12.1 x 8.3 x 5.8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 5/16 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1961.12

Location

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Artist biography

Sèvres Porcelain Factory

French national ceramic factory.

Etienne-Maurice Falconet

French sculptor and author, 1716-1791

Citations

Bourgeois, Émile. Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Goupil, 1909. vol. 1, p. 45; vol. 2, p. 11

Bourgeois, Émile, and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard. Le biscuit de Sèvres: recueil des modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: P. Lafitte, 1913. no. 435, pl. 10

Réau, Louis. Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Paris: Demotte, 1922. p. 264-65, 513-14

Les Oeuvres de la manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Vol. 1, La sculpture de 1738 à 1815. Sèvres: Manufacture nationale, 1932. p. 15, no. 453

"Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1961). p. 243, no. 21

Musée national de céramique. Sèvres, Musée national de céramique: nouvelles acquisitions, 1979-1989. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989. p. 171, no. 243

Horvitz Roth, Linda, and Clare Le Corbeiller. French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000. p. 360-61

Falconet à Sèvres, 1757-1766, ou, L'art de plaire. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001. p. 125-30

Exhibition history

Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).

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