AN ORMOLU COMMEMORATIVE GROUP OF A EUROPEAN BISON ON A PLINTH

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AN ORMOLU COMMEMORATIVE GROUP OF A EUROPEAN BISON ON A PLINTH
The realistically cast, chased and engraved figure standing on a chased ground, the rectangular plinth with scrolled corners and stepped feet, each face engraved with details of 'the Hunt in Belovezhskii Pushcha in the presence of H.I.H. the Emperor Alexander II on 6 and 7 October 1860', with the number of types of animals shot and the names of the hunters present

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Apparently one of only three casts of this group, the group commemorates a hunt on the Imperial reserve in eastern Poland, where the Emporer shot 10 bison, 2 elk, 10 goats, 8 gazelles, 5 wolves, 5 foxes, one boar and one badger. Other participants, including the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Princes Karl and Albert of Prussia, Augustus of Wurtemburg and Friedrich of Hesse Cassel, and their staff, shot a further 52 animals including 18 bison

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