Joseph Humbert is recorded as having worked at the Sèvres factory from August 1773 through January 1792, returning in the revolutionary year 3 (1794) and leaving for good at an unspecified date around 1801. He specialized in the modeling and mounting of biscuit flowers both in low and high relief. The factory archives list payment to Humbert in 1782 for "deux tableaux ovales fleurs bas relief de 14 pouces de haut sur 11 de large" at 120 livres (carton F24). Although typical of Humbert's work at Sèvres, no further listings could be found corresponding in date to the present examples.
We are grateful to Mme. Tamara Préaud, the former archivist at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, for her assistance.
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