Porcelain Bisque - Marsh Bird Jean-baptiste Gauvenet - Manu Nationale De Sèvres

Porcelain cookie - Marsh bird
Jean-Baptiste Gauvenet - Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, circa 1940

Superb animal sculpture in Sèvres porcelain bisque, depicting a marsh bird with an elegant bearing - evoking a rail, coot or fishing bird - delicately poised on a stylized mound.

This model is the work of sculptor Jean-Baptiste Gauvenet, an artist who collaborated with the prestigious Manufacture nationale de Sèvres during the first half of the XXᵉ century. His work is distinguished by an elegant interpretation of the animal world, blending naturalistic observation and simplified volumes, in the spirit of 1930-1940s modernism.

The sculpture features a particularly pure and balanced line: the bird, with its full body and gently modeled forms, seems frozen in an attentive posture. The plumage is suggested by subtle reliefs that enliven the surface without breaking the overall harmony of the silhouette.

The porcelain cookie, left in its characteristic white matte, reveals all the finesse of the modeling and the softness of the volumes. This technique, emblematic of Sèvres production, lends the piece an almost sculptural presence, akin to statuary.

The base bears the marque aux deux S entrelacés de Sèvres, attesting to its origin and manufacturing quality.

Resting on an elegant black-lacquered wooden presentation base, the set has a museum-like appearance and is a refined decorative piece, at the crossroads of animal sculpture and French decorative art of the XXᵉ century.

A rare and elegant work, emblematic of Sèvres craftsmanship and the refined style developed in the 1940s.

France, circa 1940

Artist : Jean-Baptiste Gauvenet
Manufacture : Sèvres
Material: porcelain biscuit
Condition: perfect condition