A French marble pedestal, in the manner of Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738-1814)

Minor chipping and surface abrasions throughout. Some small spots of paint. Chipping around top edge with one chip reattached. Pitting and scratches to top, with filled indentation at the center with a remnant of a metal pin.
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The composition illustrating frolicking putti with a floral chain is repeated on a bronze relief cast by Thiébaut et Fils after 1900 only known from photographs and catalogued as "after Clodion".  There is no documented sculpture by Clodion of this subject although the general theme is repeated throughout his career. Poulet and Scherf (op. cit.) note the multitude of images ascribed to Clodion and refer to the physical types and draperies on the bronze as perhaps more "Clodionesque".

RELATED LITTERATURE

A. L. Poulet and G. Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, Paris, 1992, pp. 458-459, fig. 264