Hunting scene with a Dog a Boar and a Fox

A Vienna porcelain plaque decorated with a polychrome scene of the bodies of a boar and a fox. The bodies lie in the foreground, guarded by a hunting dog and beside the corpses are a hunting bag and sword, both in green trimmed with gold. On the extreme left is a pollard willow, and in the distance a rolling classical landscape. The plaque has a gilded rim with an alternating tongue pattern.

Josef Nigg (1782-1863), the father of the painter Alois Nigg, studied under Johann Drechsler at the Academy in Vienna. From 1800 to 1843 he was employed as a flower painter at Vienna's porcelain factory, and from 1835 he also taught painting there. A large painting of flowers on a porcelain plaque thirty inches in height, was presented by Nigg on behalf of the Viennese factory, at the Great Exhibition of 1851.