A Sèvres Porcelain Bust of Louis XV, circa 1760-69
This is a very rare soft-paste Sèvres porcelain bust of Louis XV after a marble sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. Lemoyne created several marble busts of the King and this one was copied in reduced form at the Sèvres manufactory in un-glazed ‘biscuit’ porcelain.