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Lot 84
  • 84

A good Sèvres biscuit bust of Alexander I, Tsar of Russia circa 1808

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • red stencilled M.Imple. de Sèvres 8 to base, stamped Sèvres and incised A.B. J.B. I. m. 8. No.1
  • 35cm., 13 ¾in.
after a model by Louis Simon Boizot, wearing uniform and raised on a gilt-edged socle base

Catalogue Note

First created in 1808 by Louis Simon Boizot, the sculptor responsible for this particular model was probably Alexander Brachard, who was paid in March 1808 for producing a bust of Alexander.

Napoleon and Alexander I signed the Treaty of Tilsit on 7th July 1807. Lavish presents were exchanged between the two nations.The Sèvres factory records list Boizot as providing a design of a bust of Alexander I to be produced in porcelain after a miniature marble bust of the Tsar in marble.The bust is mentioned in the Exhibition catalogue, Louis Simon Boizot, Lambinet Museum, 2001-02, no.117.

We are most grateful to Madame Tamara Préaud for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.