Léo LAPORTE-BLAIRSY (1865 - 1923) & MANUFACTURE NATIONAL - Lot 120

Léo LAPORTE-BLAIRSY (1865 - 1923) & MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES "The Palms". Proof in cookie. Marked Sèvres (scrap mark) and numbered G4609 on the back of the terrace. Height. 20,5 cm History: A larger variant is kept in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper (n°D.05-1-77). Bibliography : Paul Vitry, " La petite sculpture aux salons ", Art et Décoration, August 1902, bronze variant reproduced p. 40 ; Les oeuvres de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres 1738 - 1932 - La sculpture moderne, Volume II, model referenced under n°1474 and reproduced pl. 14 ; Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895 - 1914 - Ceramics & glass, Volume IV, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, polychrome porcelain variant reproduced p. 411.