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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 12361947, member: 91417&quot;]This brings out the iconographer in me. It looks like your infant has hands clasped in prayer and is looking down to one side, as if the object of his devotion were lying on the ground beside him. This suggests an infant St. John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child, as seen in many Renaissance paintings, such as this Piero di Cosimo in the Borghese Gallery: <a href="https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/opere/adoration-of-the-christ-child" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/opere/adoration-of-the-christ-child" rel="nofollow">https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/opere/adoration-of-the-christ-child</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>Did Sevres make figural groups of several figurines?&nbsp; If I am right about this being a John the Baptist in adoration, the group would have included the Christ Child and probably a Virgin Mary adoring her infant son.&nbsp; (Angels would be possible additions.)</p><p>I asked google AI if Sevres made porcelain Nativity sets, and the answer was &quot;no.&quot; As a creche would be a more usual group of figures, my idea of an &quot;Adoration of the Christ Child&quot; set of figurines may be a long shot.&nbsp; But what is the figure doing if not in prayer/adoration and turned to face the object of devotion?&nbsp; If it just a praying infant (example to a child who once owned it), why is he facing down?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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