30. A pair of Doccia animal groups (caccine), circa 1750 In the white, one modelled with a lion sinking its teeth into a horse, the other modelled as a lion and tiger attacking one another, each on a wooden pedestal, the horse and lion: 8.2cm high, the lion and tiger: 8.4cm high, (minor chips) (2) Provenance With Maria Antonia Gianetti, Milan Literature Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, pp. 200-204, nos. 17 and 18. This pair of hunting groups are known as caccine (caccia meaning "hunt"), probably based on the bronzes executed by Antonio Susini (1558-1624) after models by his master Giambologna (1529-1608). These bronzes were in turn based on fragmentary examples from Antiquity housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Alessandro Biancalana suggests that these small statuettes were used both as table decoration as well as knobs on the covers of bottle coolers and tureens (Biancalana 2023, p. 202).