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A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century image 1
A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century image 2
A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century image 3
A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century image 4
A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century image 5
A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century image 6
Lot 178

A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century

500 Years of European Ceramics
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £20,000

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A rare Sèvres biscuit porcelain hunting table centrepiece after Oudry, late 19th century

Modelled after paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, comprising: a very large group of a stag with five hounds (Chasse au cerf), a large group of a boar with two hounds (Chasse ay sanglier), a large group of a wolf with two hounds (Chasse au loup), two groups of hunters with two hounds (one huntsman with a horn) (Valet de chiens and Valet de chiens au cor) , one figure of a hunter blowing a French horn (Chasseur au cor) and one figure of a hunter with a rifle (Chasseur au fusil), the largest: 65 x 51cm, impressed SEVRES marks, incised monogram DE and 92 4 (hunter with horn), 98.5 (stag with hounds), 92.8 (hunter with single hound), incised a50-9-92 (hunter and two hounds), a50-2-92 (bear and two hounds) reversed E and R cypher and 92.RLV (boar with two hounds) (some restoration) (7)

Footnotes

See Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines du Musée Condé à Chantilly (2005), no. 28, for a full discussion of the surtout.

The models are after paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755). Smaller animal groups were already modelled at Vincennes, but were later expanded upon in the 1770s to create larger centrepieces. Louis XV is recorded to have purchased the three of the animal centrepiece groups in 1776. Further groups were added to the surtout a bit later, first mentioned in the archives in 1787.

In the 1840s the duc d'Aumale ordered a new edition of the surtout, which is still in the Château de Chantilly today (Préaud, op.cit., pp. 70ff). From the 1870s, the manufactory produced further sets of the table centrepiece for French embassies and to be given as diplomatic gifts or prizes. It is likely the present lot was one of these sets.

A set of five groups was sold at Sotheby's London, 13 April 2011, lot 225, and eight groups split into three lots at Christie's London, 3 December 2014, lots 66, 67 and 68.

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