Two Sevres biscuit groups
Two biscuit groups of Sevres on an ovale base of blue porcelain and gold highlights, marked with "socle pour les groupes de côté n° 1 et 2 du surtout de Bacchus 1872". Each group represents a Bacchante and a Satyr playing music. In the first group, the Bacchante plays cymbals while the Satyr sitting next to her plays trumpets. In the second group, the Bacchante lost its musical instruments, probably tambourines. The Satyr plays panpipes. These models present la Bacchante au tambour basque and la Bacchante aux cymbales, they are marked S (18)72 on the base.These two biscuits, along with the four figures 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 :1872
Dim: W: 11,4 in - D: 8,3in - H: 15in.
Dim: L:29cm, P:21cm, H:38cm.
Bibliography: E. Bourgeois, Le biscuit de Sèvres au XVIII° siècle, Paris, 1909, ed. Goupil, Tome II, p 16
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