CIRCA 1750, ATTRIBUTED TO GASPERO BRUSCHI

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A PAIR OF DOCCIA CARYATID FIGURES
CIRCA 1750, ATTRIBUTED TO GASPERO BRUSCHI
Each scantily draped figure issuing from a scroll column, mounted on a later walnut moulded bracket
11¼ in. (29 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

H. E. Constantin Prince zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

See Johann Kraftner, Liechtenstein Museum Vienna, Baroque Luxury Porcelain, The Manufacturies of Du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence (Munich, 2005), p. 399, for an illustration of a similar bracket. Such putti were made as ornamentation to be mounted on wooden stands which supported larger porcelain figures which were based on models after the Antique. Two similar figures, in the same scheme, are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and another is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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