La Chasse and La Peche, a Pair of Figures, Bates, Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co, circa 1860, he wear

La Chasse and La Peche, a Pair of Figures, Bates, Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co, circa 1860, he wears an animal skin and holds the leg of a deer at his side, standing on a boar head, she stands full length holding a fishing net, her left foot on a fish trap, both on rocks and titled, impressed "BBW&M", 48cm by 47cm respectively See illustration Purchased at "The Parian Phenomenon, Catalogue of an Exhibition" arranged by Richard Dennis, Chelsea Town Hall, December 1984, item 531 and 532. Also illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary & Busts, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, fig.795, pg.240, where they are described as typical French genre subjects, probably modelled in Stoke by French artists. Hunters were common subjects in earlier porcelain designs, here it has been reinterpreted in a more robust and heroic way, almost certainly by one of the French sculptors working at Stoke during the 1860's.