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A Doccia porcelain model of three putti and a tiger, circa 1747-52
描述
- Porcelain, wood
- 31cm., 12¼ in. high
出版
A. Carola Perrotti, Porcellana di Doccia alla Floridiana, in Arte Illustrata, n. 49, 1972, pp. 218-224;
Klaus Lankheit, Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia, 1982, p. 160;
D. Zikos, A. d'Agliano, Sculpture at Doccia, in the context of the early European Porcelain Manufactories, J. Kräftner (ed.), Baroque Luxury Porcelain, exh. catalogue, Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, 2005, pp. 143-144, pp. 457-458;
R. Balleri, I Soldani, Del Marchese Clemente Vitelli, in Paragone, 74, 2007, pp. 62-73; A. d'Agliano, in Importanti porcellane e maioliche di Giampaolo Luckacs cit. p. 108, n. 246.
Condition
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拍品資料及來源
(published by Lankheit, op. cit., 1982, p.160).
In the mid-1730's the Marchese Carlo Ginori founded the Doccia porcelain factory in Sesto Fiorentino, Florence. In 1737 the sculptor Gaspero Bruschi was made director of the sculpture department at the factory.
In a letter dating to 27th February 1747, preserved in the Archivo Ginori Lisci, Florence, referenced by d'Agliano, op. cit., 2005, p.458; op. cit., 2007, p.70, Bruschi writes to Carlo Ginori of two recently modelled groups:
‘… Io poi ho fatto, secondo gli ordini da Vostra Eccellenza datimi, il gruppo dei puttini con la tigre e ne vado facendo un altro ( che è quasi finito) con una capra e/o altra maschera, e ho mutata l’attitudine dei medesimi putti che ancora essi scherzano con uva e foglie, che non resta di minor bizzarria di codesto, che è fatto per suo compagno’, [Since following Your Excellency’s orders, I have made the Group of Puttini with a Tiger and am making another one (which is almost finished) with a goat and another mask, and I have changed the pose of the putti themselves, who again play with grapes and leaves, which is no less bizarre than the one I made for its companion].
The composition of the present model is comparable to a model which depicts three putti resting on the back of a goat, which is similarly modelled with a rough rockwork oval base applied with realistic leaves and bunches of grapes, an example of which is in the collection of the Museo Duca di Martini, Naples, illustrated by A. Perrotti, op. cit., 1972, no. 6. It seems likely that the present model and the one in Naples are the models mentioned in Bruschi’s 1747 letter. The model is discussed by Balleri in her article where she also illustrates a plaster model (no. 41) which seemingly is the prototype for the present group.
A comparable example of the present model, though only featuring two putti and modelled in a slightly different pose, was in the collection of Giampaolo Lukacs, sold in Sotheby's Milan, 18th April 2007, lot 246, (illustrated by d’Agliano, op. cit., 2005, p. 143.; Balleri, op. cit., 2007, no. 40).