Statuette
c. 1780 (made)
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Statuette in hard-paste porcelain of Autumn, painted with enamels. A man dressed in a black hat, purple coat over a white shirt open in front, yellow breeches, white stockings and black shoes, and standing beside a stump on a square base painted in imitation of stonework. He holds up a vintager's basket full of flowers.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Statuette in hard-paste porcelain of Autumn, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, c. 1780 |
| Physical description | Statuette in hard-paste porcelain of Autumn, painted with enamels. A man dressed in a black hat, purple coat over a white shirt open in front, yellow breeches, white stockings and black shoes, and standing beside a stump on a square base painted in imitation of stonework. He holds up a vintager's basket full of flowers. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Captain H. B. Murray |
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| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
p. 66, Cat. 43
43. Figure of a peasant boy with a basket
circa 1780
hard-paste porcelain painted in colours
h 10 cm
no mark
inv. C.2603-1910
bequest: Captain H.B. Murray
This particular typology is not among those listed for peasants and shepherds in the Inventory of Models (AGL, I, 2, f. 37, Fabbrica delle Porcellana di Doccia. Scritture e Documenti, fasc. 22 bis, p. 53 54).Among the moulds we have not been able to identify with certainty this figure even though there are numerous references to “peasants” with no additional details. This young peasant boy (B-0733) is one of the models that were made from the casts obtained in the 1960s (BALLERI 2011, p. 40) using the historic moulds which are still stored at the Richard-Ginori factory in Sesto Fiorentino. After the trip of Giuseppe Bruschi (active at the Ginori factory from 1749 to 1778) to the court of the duke of Colorno in Parma in 1763, the Ginori factory gradually changed the models they were imitating to those of Meissen (D’AGLIANO 2011, p. 128-145) and, above all, to those of Sèvres, which were considered by Bruschi to be even better than the German ones (BIANCALANA 2011, p. 100-127).
A.B.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.2603-1910 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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