Two matching soft-paste porcelain hunting groups, one featuring a wild boar in relief, mouth ajar, on a grassy terrace adorned with a shrub stump, and the other featuring a hound at rest on a grassy terrace, with polychrome décor au naturel. The highly realistic decoration finely depicts the expression and coat of the animals and the naturalistic details of the vegetation.
MENNECY-VILLEROY factory.
Mid 18th century.
Boar length: 19 cm - Height: 21 cm
Dog length: 17 cm - Height: 21 cm
The boar model is a replica of the bronze Porcellino statue in Florence's Mercato Nuovo.
The Musée National de Sèvres holds two models of the same shape in white enameled porcelain (inv. MNC25228 and MNC26340).
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