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		</div><p>A porcelain sculpture discovered in a French flea market now has a new home – at the Victoria &; Albert Museum.</p>
<p>Head Of A Laughing Child, which dates from the 18th century, was found eight years ago.</p>
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<p>It was discovered in south-west Brittany in 2011 by retired porcelain dealer Louis Woodford.</p>
<figure id="attachment_146630" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-146630" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-146630" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/A40F15CD-200C-4770-A7FC-CFA1A4823D4B.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="375" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-146630" class="wp-caption-text">The Victoria &; Albert Museum in London</figcaption></figure>
<p>He recognised it as a significant piece of English porcelain and it has now been acquired by the V&;A, with support from national charity Art Fund.</p>
<p>New research has revealed that the sculpture was almost certainly cast from an original clay model made by renowned French-born sculptor Louis-Francois Roubiliac who was active in London in the 1740s, the museum said.</p>
<p>Reino Liefkes, head of ceramics at the museum, said: “Roubiliac’s Head Of A Laughing Child is one of the most exciting discoveries in ceramics for many years.</p>
<p>“This vivacious sculpture is one of the most fluently modelled examples of English sculptural porcelain ever produced and I’m thrilled it joins our world-renowned ceramics collection.”</p>
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<p>The sculpture is now on show in the V&;A’s British Galleries, which traces the earliest developments in English porcelain.</p>
<p>The V&;A recently acquired Matching Pair (2017), a set of two ceramic vases by Grayson Perry capturing the rift caused by Brexit, for its ceramics collection.</p>
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