Lot 73
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A LE NOVE (PAROLIN) PORCELAIN PASTORAL GROUP
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A LE NOVE (PAROLIN) PORCELAIN PASTORAL GROUP

CIRCA 1781-1790

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A LE NOVE (PAROLIN) PORCELAIN PASTORAL GROUP
CIRCA 1781-1790
Modelled with a man playing the bagpipes, his foot on a monkey's lead, the monkey dressed in clothes and scratching its back with a stick, a woman seated nearby with a scantily clad todler, a boy standing behind them, on a circular rockwork base applied with flowers and foliage (slight chipping to extremities)
6 7/8 in. (17.6 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Groups of similar type are illustrated by Saul Levy, Le Porcellane Italiane (Milan, 1960), pl. 135a and pl. 138c. A group in Milan with a similar female figure is illustrated by Giorgio Lise, 'Museo d'Arti Applicate, Le Pocellane' Catalogue (Milan, 1975), fig. 36, Cat. No. 47); see also Guiliana Ericani, et. al., 'La ceramica degli Antonibon' Catalogue (Milan, 1990), cat. no. 259 for an associated group.

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