BUST OF CHARLES-PHILIPPE OF FRANCE, COUNT OF ARTOIS, FUTURE CHARLES X
Creator(s): Fernando Ciancianaini (Sculptor)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The bust shows a boy wearing curled wig of the period. He turns and looks to the left. He wears an elaborate jabot at his neck. He also wears a sash across his right shoulder from which hangs the badge of an order while on his left breast is the star of the order of the Saint Esprit. It stands on a yellow marble pedestal base.
- Object name:
- BUST OF CHARLES-PHILIPPE OF FRANCE, COUNT OF ARTOIS, FUTURE CHARLES X
- Made from:
- Terracotta
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- early 20th Century
- Size:
- 25.4 cm (10 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 27.17
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- SIGNATURE; DATE Fernand Cian and date 1771 [?] [On back of left shoulder incised] INSCRIPTION Comte d'Artois [Writtten in the terracotta on the back] LABELS [?]860; #29 [Underneath]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973