LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A garniture of three Sevres biscuit hunting groups
Late 19th Century
Comprising a large central group and two smaller side groups: the central group with a running stag being captured by five hounds, one side group with two hounds capturing a fox, the other with two hounds capturing a wild boar, each on a naturalistically-moulded base and on shaped dark-blue-ground and gilt porcelain plinth, each group impressed SEVRES, the underside of each impressed SEVRES MANUFACTURE NATIONALE in a roundel, the larger group with incised monogram mark JL 89.11, the fox group with E.C. 90, the boar group with JL 89, restoration to stag's antlers and chip to side of central group plinth
The central group: 21in. (53.2cm.) high, overall
The side groups: 12¼in. and 12½in. (31cm. and 31.7cm.) high, overall (3)

Lot Essay

See Emile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechevailier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sevres, Vol. II, Paris, p. 41 for an illustration of a group similar in type to the stag group.
The monogram JL is for Jules-Eugène Legay who is recorded working at the factory 1861-1895.
The monogram EC is for Charles-Ernest Couturier who is recorded working at the factory 1865-1899.

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