Excellent general condition, only a small flaw on the shotgun behind one of the two characters, otherwise perfect.
Item description:
Wonderful biscuit sculpture depicting a hunting group, made up of two hunters in nineteenth-century clothes with dogs, rifles and game, in style of Queen Victoria, made in England, by James Hadley for the Royal Worcester manufacturer. The sculpture is not signed, but only numbered under the base with an engraved number and another in red, the classic numbering of nineteenth-century English porcelain, made in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Useful information for the evaluation of the object:
The sculpture is not signed but we can attribute the authorship of this sculpture to the artist James Hadley and the English manufacturer Royal Worcester. In the photos just below this description we have, in fact, placed some biscuits by this artist and you can easily see the similarity with ours, for the type of subjects, for the biscuit which is creamy and slightly shiny like ours, the features of the base. However, our sculpture has a remarkable artistic quality, with an attention to detail superior to those given for example, comparable only to the "Woodsman" of the last two photos, a single subject, much smaller than our group and offered at a good 485 Australian dollars. We believe, due to the beautiful ancient patina and the great artistic quality and also due to the fact that the signature is missing, that it is one of the first and most valuable sculptures created around 1850, precisely in style of the Queen Victoria, when the artist was not yet he was very well known and famous.