Four Sevres biscuit statuettes
Four biscuits of Sevres on an circular base of blue porcelain and gold highlights.The first Satyr is standing, leaning against a tree trunk, at his feet is an overturned amphora and a gourd. This Satyr plays trumpet and holding another one in his right hand. A second statuette is a Faun in the same position as the previous but with a fruit basket at his feet. He has lost its musical instrument, probably a flute. The other two biscuits represent Bacchantes. At the foot of the first one, is a vase filled with fruit, she holds an amphora and a cup. The second Nymph has a fruit basket at her feet and plays sitar.These models present le Faune aux cornes et le Faune à la flûte as well as la Bacchante à l'amphore et la Bacchante au sistre. They are marked S (18)76 on the base.These four biscuits, along with the two models sold in a second batch, are the surtout de Bacchus. This model was started at the Sevres factory at the end of 1772 after the designs of Jean-Hughes Taraval and finished in 1773.
Circa :1876
Dim: W: 5,5 in - D: 5,5in - H: 13in.
Dim: L:14cm, P:14cm, H:33cm.
Bibliography: E. Bourgeois, Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIII° siècle, Paris, 1909, ed. Goupil, Tome I, p 75, Tome II, p 16
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