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Portrait bust
Biscuit hard-paste porcelain bust of Napoleon I after a plaster model by A. D. Chaudet, base rectangular with the shoulders squared off after classical prototypes, head full face, looking directly ahead with hair falling on forehead; firing cracks to interior; rectangular white metal (? pewter) base by Thomire, painted and varnshed a speckled maroon colour in imitation of porphry, top with ormolu frame and brass boss, modern softwood and plywood block within.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30248
Creation/Production
Sèvres
Chaudet, Antoine-Denis
Oger, Jacques-Jean
Date: 1808 –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 18/7/1991
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height (cm): 29.5
Length (cm): 16
Width (cm): 13
Height (in): 11
Length (in): 6
Width (in): 5
Height (cm): 6.8
Length (cm): 17.8
Width (cm): 14.9
Height (in): 2
Length (in): 17.8
Width (in): 14.9
Height (cm): 35.2
Height (in): 13
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
Material
porcelain
Location
In store
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