Lot Archive

Lot

№ 637

.

30 November 2000

Estimate: £60–£80

France, Empress Eugenie, 1855, a white Sèvres portrait plaque by J.-C. Peyre, bust right, 83mm (BDM IV, 472). Surface a trifle dirty, otherwise extremely fine (£60-80)

Jules-Constant Peyre, sculptor from Sédan in the Ardennes who studied under Barye, worked at the Sèvres porcelain manufactory