Sèvres Pair of groups in soft porcelain biscuit... - Lot 138 - Gros & Delettrez

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Sèvres Pair of groups in soft porcelain biscuit... - Lot 138 - Gros & Delettrez
Sèvres Pair of groups in soft porcelain biscuit representing a dog watching for partridges and a fox attacking a partridge according to Oudry. Marqués : F for Falconet. 18th century, 1757-1766 L. 22cm and 25cm Light shots Four models of large biscuit hunting groups were created at the Vincennes factory around 1750-51, then in enamelled porcelain blanche : the dog and boar group, the dog group attacking a hyena, the group representing a dog pursuing a swan and the fox and partridge group. Jean-Baptiste Oudry is most probably at the origin of the drawings of the animal sculptures of the Vincennes factory. "200 drawings and landscape counter-proofs" by Mr. Oudry are recorded in the manufactory's inventory in October 1752 ; in 1749, Jean-Baptiste Oudry receives the sum of "142 livres pour modèles par lui payés à différens artistes". This mention could mean that he had three-dimensional models established based on his own compositions. Jean Chabry, sculptor of the Académie de Saint-Luc since 1738, is probably responsible for the three-dimensional design of Oudry's models. He received 60 pounds on November 30, 1750 for clay models and a white enamelled boar hunting group kept at the Detroit Institute of Arts was signed in hollow under the Chabry base. A hunting group for wild boar in biscuit is delivered with the service and especially offered by Louis XV in 1763 to the Duchess of Bedford and now kept at Woburn Abbey ; another was part of the former Wilfred A collection. Sainsbury (Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1967, lot 64, a third is kept at the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne, a fourth sold by Sotheby's, Paris on 9 November 2012 (lot 106). These large biscuit groups were sold in Sèvres in the 1760s for 144 pounds each.
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