Roger VIEILLARD (1907-1989) & MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SÈVRES Musical pebble, 1976 A sculpture. Proof in Sèvres blue enamelled porcelain with gold motifs. The base in gilt bronze. Signed Roger VIEILLARD 1976 on the porcelain base and bears the manufactory's stamp on the gilt bronze base. H. 28 cm Exhibitions : - Sèvres - Marseille, Palais des Congrès, from 29 March to 9 April 1974. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event. - Sèvres: tradition and new forms - Helsinki, Amos Anderson Art Museum, from November 22 1974 to January 5 1975. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event. - Exhibition of French ceramics - Seoul, National Museum of Modern Art, from 10 August to 19 September 1976. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event. - Vieillard à Bordeaux - Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, from 24 October to 15 December 1986. An identical model, or our work, exhibited at this event. - Hommage à un donateur: le graveur Roger Vieillard (1907-1989), membre de l'Institut - Beauvais, Musée départemental de l'Oise, from 2 April to 4 September 1990. An identical model, or our work, exhibited during this event. Bibliography: - Anne Guérin, with the collaboration of Virginie Rault - Roger Vieillard - Catalogue raisonné, œuvre gravé 1934-1989 - Éditions Anne Guérin / Somogy Éditions d'Art / Musée de Gravelines, Paris / Gravelines, 2003. The model cited among the artist's ceramics published by the Manufacture de Sèvres, pages 689 and 903; the engravings of the decoration referenced under numbers 535 and 536, and reproduced on page 689. - Collective - Porcelaine de Sèvres au XXe siècle - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée national e la Céramique, Sèvres, from 7 April to 31 August 1987, published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1987. An identical work is reproduced on page 105 (ill. 256).