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Bust of Louis XV

dated 1745
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed soft-paste porcelain
DimensionsOverall: 31.9 x 19.4 x 14.4cm (12 9/16 x 7 5/8 x 5 11/16in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2014
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceKarrick Van Zandt Riggs (b. 1853 - d. 1935), New York; by descent to his daughter, Pauline Riggs Noyes (b. 1886 - d. 1942), New York and Paris [see note 1]; February 7-8, 1947, Noyes estate sale, Parke Bernet, New York, lot 104, to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, for Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] According to the title page of the 1947 auction catalogue, the contents of the sale were collected by Karrick Riggs and had been kept by Mrs. Noyes at her residence in Paris.
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