A Capodimonte figure of a girl with a basket, modelled by G. Gricci, circa 1750

wearing a headscarf and flower-decorated dress, the rectangular basket at her feet

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This salt-cellar figure shows Giuseppe Gricci's elegant approach to the production of gallant models, derived from silver sources, which had inspired the production of Meissen. For a similar model, see A. Caròla-Perrotti, op.cit., Naples, 1986, n.152, 153 b.