A garniture of three Sèvres biscuit porcelain groups after Taraval, dated 1927 and earlier

the central group of 'Le Triomphe de Bacchus' flanked by groups of 'Le Tambourin' and 'Les Cymbales', the side groups each on a separate dark-blue-glazed oval column-moulded stand picked out in gilding, the groups with impressed marks, model-makers' marks and dated 1927, the stands with printed marks and dated 1913 and 1925,

Cymbales: lower hand and cymbal re-stuck Tambourin: Pan with chip to outstretched toes Triomphe de Bacchus: one paw of leopard missing; one small putto with finger missing The modellers' (repairer's) incised marks are: Les Cymbales LS; Le Tambourin CR; La Triomphe de Bacchus AD
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All three groups are illustrated by Emile Bourgeois, Manufacture de Sevres: Biscuits du XVIII Siecle, 1914, p.14, nos.166, 570 and '568' (a mistake for 588).

The originals of these groups were among those ordered by the King in 1772 for a Surtout de Bacchus, to designs by Jean-Hugues Taraval. They seem to have been revived in 1913 for a time, but are rarely found from either period.