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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

The Temptation of St Anthony

Figure Group
1765-1766 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain figure group of the temptation of St Anthony, Sèvres porcelain factory, modelled by Falconet, 1765-1766


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • The Temptation of St Anthony
  • La Tentation de saint Antoine (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste biscuit porcelain
Brief description
Porcelain figure group of the temptation of St Anthony, Sèvres porcelain factory, modelled by Falconet, 1765-1766
Marks and inscriptions
'F' (incised) indicating the period (1757-1766) when Etienne Maurice Falconet was Chef de l'atelier at Sèvres
Credit line
Given by W. J. Sainsbury
Production
See Falconet a Sevres exhibition catalogue, Musee de Sevres, 2001, cat 103b, for details of payments in 1765 to Leclerc for work on the group, for records of sales in 1778-1785, and the original terracotta model.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
S. Ericksen & G. de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, 1987, p. 325, pl. 137
Collection
Accession number
C.109-1972

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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