CIRCA 1880
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A matched pair of Swiss carved wood figures of sportsmen
circa 1880
one shown as a bearded man in middle age, wearing a fur trimmed hat and smoking a meerschaum pipe, holding his double barrelled gun in his left hand and a hare in his right, on a naturalistically modelled base, the other showing a young gentleman, wearing braid rimmed hat embellished with a feather, holding a partridge aloft, his rifle slung over his left shoulder, on a naturalistic base, each signed J. HUGGLER, A. BRIENZ
-- 24½ x 24¾in. (62.2 x 62.8cm.) high respectively (2)
circa 1880
one shown as a bearded man in middle age, wearing a fur trimmed hat and smoking a meerschaum pipe, holding his double barrelled gun in his left hand and a hare in his right, on a naturalistically modelled base, the other showing a young gentleman, wearing braid rimmed hat embellished with a feather, holding a partridge aloft, his rifle slung over his left shoulder, on a naturalistic base, each signed J. HUGGLER, A. BRIENZ
-- 24½ x 24¾in. (62.2 x 62.8cm.) high respectively (2)