Lot 220: Other Properties

Cast by Georges Emile Henri Servant, French (1828-c.1890)
each bust raised on a spreading integral socle cast with bell flowers, signed EMILE HEBERT and stamped GS MEDAILLE D'OR 1867, above a Belge Noir and Rouge Griotte marble stepped square plinth, incised with a gilt winged scarab and inscribed RAMSES and ISIS respectively, 48cm high (18.5" high) (2)

Pierre-Eugene-Emile Hebert studied under his father Pierre Hebert and later under the important Romantic sculptor Feuchère. He exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1846 to 1893. Georges Emile Henri Servant was also apprenticed to his own father, and took over his Paris foundry on the Rue Vielle-du-Temple. He exhibited at many of the important exhibitions including the Paris Exhibition of 1855, the London Exhibition of 1862 and again in 1867 when he won the gold medal. This pair of busts may have once formed part of a garniture with a clock.
A pair of busts of this type were sold at Christie's, London, 7 February 2001, lot 123 and were en-suite to a clock and a pair of urns, also in the Egyptian revival style.
A similar pair of busts in gilt bronze were sold at Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2008, lot 194, ($20,000).