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A Naples Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea biscuit porcelain group of Ajax Telamonious by Filippo Tagliolini, circa 1800

Lot Closed

September 26, 01:14 PM GMT

Estimate

1,400 - 1,800 EUR

Lot Details

Description

modelled with Ajax standing and carrying the body of Patroclus or of a soldier, upon a mound base, inscription of a collection and paper label.


35 cm, 13 ¾ in. high

Wannenes Genoa, 29 February 2012, lot 59.

This biscuit is after the most famous marble version of the model originally on Ponte Vecchio, today in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.


Related Literature

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, London, 1986, no.72;

Á. González-Palacios, Lo Scultore Filippo Tagliolini e la porcellana di Napoli, Turin, 1998, no. 23.