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Two Naples Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea biscuit porcelain busts by Filippo Tagliolini, circa 1790-1800

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September 26, 01:04 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 EUR

Lot Details

Description

one depicting Emperor Augustus, the other traditionally identified as Roman general Marcus Agrippa, incised Marco Agrippa, both on a socle base

20cm, 7 ⅞ in. and 18.5cm, 7 ¼ in. high

(2)

Il Ponte, Milan, 9-11 October 2012, lots 316, 318.

The model of the portrait of Augustus derives from a small bronze bust of the emperor discovered in Herculaneum. The full-size prototype of the head traditionally identified as Marcus Agrippa—today reinterpreted either as the Hellenistic King Ptolemy Soter II or as an athlete—belonged to a set of eleven busts after the marble examples unearthed at Herculaneum during the excavations of 1753. These models were included in the dessert service commissioned by King Ferdinand IV as a gift for his father, Charles in Spain.

Related Literature

A. Caròla-Perrotti, "Ceramiche" in Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, 2006, no. 2. 16/97.

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