A Volpato biscuit porcelain figure of The Muse Calliope, circa 1786-1800
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September 26, 01:17 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
modelled seated wearing classical drapery on a rockwork base, with her right arm raised, holding wax tablets in her left hand, the front of the base impressed CALLIOPE and the right side G. VOLPATO ROMA.
21 cm, 8 ¼ in. high
Sotheby's Milan, 20 June 2006, lot 362.
This biscuit figure of the Muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, is identical to the one forming part of the dessert (centrepiece) executed by Giovanni Volpato between 1786 and 1800, now in the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa (Honour and Melegati 2003, no. 6). It was modelled after the marble statue of Hadrian age from the Boncompagni Ludovisi collection, now in the Museo di Palazzo Altemps, Rome.
Related Literature
La Collezione Boncompagni Ludovisi, exhibition catalogue, Venice, 1992, p. 92, cat. no. 4;
L. Melegati, 'Un centrotavola della Manifattura di Pocellane di Fivanni Volpato' in Notiziario dell'Associazione degli Amici dei Museu di Bassano del Grappa, January 2001, p. 176;
H. Honour, I Trionfi del Volpato, exhibition catalogue, Milano, 2003, p. 261, cat. no.6.
A. d'Agliano, L. Melegati, Ricordi dell'Antico, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2008, pp. 234-35, cat. no. 101.
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