FRANÇOIS POMPON (1855-1933) SCULPTOR & MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SÈVRES Tourterelle, titled Colombe by the manufactory, model created in [1919], the cookie porcelain edition between 1922 and 1932, reputed to be 72 copies, our proof dated 1927. Sculpture. Proof in cookie porcelain (new hard paste). A small accident at the corner of the base of the front mound. Bearing the date stamp 1927 DN (pâte dure nouvelle) of the Manufacture Nationale de SÈVRES and a monogram (possibly of the molder) on the base at the back of the mound. Height: 19.5cm Public collection: Musée National de la Céramique, Sèvres - Another cookie porcelain proof of our sculpture model is preserved in the collections of this institution. Bibliography: - Les œuvres de la Manufacture de Sèvres 1738-1932, volume II, la sculpture moderne - Éditions de la manufacture, Sèvres, circa 1932. An identical print is reproduced on plate 36 as no. 1148. - Robert Rey - François Pompon - Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie, Paris, 1928. A plaster proof of our sculpture model reproduced on plate 7. - Liliane Colas, Anne Pingeot, Catherine Chevillot and Laure de Margerie - François Pompon 1855-1933 - Éditions Gallimard/Electa Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1994. Model referenced in the chapter - Catalogue raisonné : Animaux - under number 151 Tourterelle 1908-1922 - C Tourterelle 1919 - Biscuit page 221, a stone lithograph proof reproduced on page 56 (pl. 16). - Collectif - Porcelaine de Sèvres au XXe siècle - Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Musée National de la Céramique de Sèvres, April 3 - August 31, 1987, published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1987. A cookie porcelain proof reproduced on page 30 (ill. 3).