An Extremely Rare and Life Like Paris Dihl and Guerhard Biscuit Porcelain Seated Infant Boy after the model by Charles Gabriel Sauvage, on a plinth, set on a simulated agate base. The child with gracefully curling hair and genial countenance, peering and reading from an open book, the rectangular plinth draped with folded material.

A porcelain plaque with a portrait of Dihl by Etienne Le Guay is in the Musee de Ceramique at Sevres, in the portrait dated 1797 appears the exact model of the seated child, resting on the top of his desk. There is an example of this model within the Arkhangelskoye Palace Russia.The modeller Sauvage had worked at the Niderviller porcelain manufactory, where he was chief modeller until the 1790’s when he started to work for Dihl.