Featured Plaster or chalk ware Bookend? Beautiful Girl

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  1. 916Bulldogs123

    916Bulldogs123 Well-Known Member

    These thinks keep speaking to me from across the room and calling me to buy them lol.
    I couldn't resist this face. She is just about 10" tall and solid almost 3 lbs. I was thinking bookend because of the flat unfinished back? but could be just for being up against a wall or mantle?
    Mikey
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  2. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    Could be a pale imitation after Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who produced exceptional child busts in the 18th C.

    (Another name in the same field is Louis-Claude Vassé.)
     
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Given little cap, right period (for imitation.)

    Debora
     
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  4. 916Bulldogs123

    916Bulldogs123 Well-Known Member

    Do you think that the little flower thing was added?
     
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  5. wiscbirddog

    wiscbirddog Well-Known Member

    She is sweet but think the hair decoration is an unneeded addition. Also, think she's be too big to be a bookend.
     
    wiscbirddog, Dec 4, 2021
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  6. Boland

    Boland Well-Known Member

    Looks out of place to me. I just want to take it off..
     
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  7. 916Bulldogs123

    916Bulldogs123 Well-Known Member

    I did.
     
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