HARDISON INGE Bust of Norbert Rillieux

Sale 1926 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 1,092

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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300

HARDISON, INGE. Bust of Norbert Rillieux. Fired gray-black clay or composition with bronze color finish, 8x5x5 inches. Hardison's signature incised on the base. Frankfort and Louisville, KY: Taylor Distillery, 1962

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Rillieux (1806-1894), was born free on a plantation in Louisiana. His father sent him to Paris to study. There, he developed a process which took raw cane juice and turned it into refined powder, thus reducing the cost of producing table sugar.<