A GROUP OF THREE SEVRES AND SEVRES-STYLE WHITE BISCUIT HUNTING GROUPS ON SEVRES BLUE-GROUND BASES
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A GROUP OF THREE SEVRES AND SEVRES-STYLE WHITE BISCUIT HUNTING GROUPS ON SEVRES BLUE-GROUND BASES

THE BISCUIT GROUPS LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS INCISED INTERLACED L MARKS TO ONE, ONE GROUP WITH IMPRESSED SEVRES, INCISED 5-03 AND FP MARKS, ANOTHER WITH IMPRESSED LEAF AND SPURIOUS INTERLACED L MARK, ONE BASE DATED 1896, TWO 20TH CENTURY, VARIOUS PRINTED AND INCISED MARKS

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A GROUP OF THREE SEVRES AND SEVRES-STYLE WHITE BISCUIT HUNTING GROUPS ON SEVRES BLUE-GROUND BASES
THE BISCUIT GROUPS LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS INCISED INTERLACED L MARKS TO ONE, ONE GROUP WITH IMPRESSED SEVRES, INCISED 5-03 AND FP MARKS, ANOTHER WITH IMPRESSED LEAF AND SPURIOUS INTERLACED L MARK, ONE BASE DATED 1896, TWO 20TH CENTURY, VARIOUS PRINTED AND INCISED MARKS
After Jean-Baptiste Oudry; the first modelled as a stag pursued by five hounds on a rocky shaped oval base constructed in two sections; a Sèvres group with a boar being attacked by two hounds on a rocky oval base and a Sèvres-style group modelled with a wolf being attacked by two hounds, on blue-ground gilt-lined bases
The stag group 28 1/8 in. (71.4 cm.) wide

Specialist note

This series of hunting groups were first modelled in 1776 at the Sèvres manufactory, several of the groups by Blondeau and all after the painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755). For the models see Emile Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Paris, 1909, pp. 20-21.