Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin

Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere

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Commemorating treaties signed in Paris on February 6, 1778, this biscuit-porcelain group symbolizes the Franco-American Alliance. The owner of the estate where the Niderviller workshop was established participated in the American Revolutionary War and may have suggested the subject himself.

Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain

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Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain
Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain
Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain
Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain
Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain
Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain
Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (1741–1827), Porcelain

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