TWO DOCCIA WHITE PORCELAIN LARGE HIGH-RELIEF PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN AND WINTER
CIRCA 1757-70
TWO DOCCIA WHITE PORCELAIN LARGE HIGH-RELIEF PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN AND WINTER CIRCA 1757-70 Each modelled after the terracotta originals by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi , the plaque emblematic of Autumn with the drunken Silenus riding a donkey and assisted by satyrs, Bacchus reclining to the right against a Baccante or Ariadne, before putti playfully festooning his thyrsus with ivy by a crater vase, the other plaque representing Winter with Venus imploring a male figure, possibly Adonis, her chariot led by swans to the left, Vulcan to the right before his assistants forging armour, a martial trophy with a shield above, both in 19th century ebonised and giltwood frames (Autumn cracked across and restuck with minor losses along break, spout of ewer chipped, Bacchus’s right arm partially lacking, Winter with firing fault to swan’s neck, slight firing crack to edge of plaque below Adonis’s left foot, Vulcan’s left arm and hammer partially lacking probably from time of manufacture) Approximately 21½ in. x 15½ in. (54.5 cm. x 39 cm.) excluding frames
TWO DOCCIA WHITE PORCELAIN LARGE HIGH-RELIEF PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN AND WINTER
CIRCA 1757-70
TWO DOCCIA WHITE PORCELAIN LARGE HIGH-RELIEF PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN AND WINTER CIRCA 1757-70 Each modelled after the terracotta originals by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi , the plaque emblematic of Autumn with the drunken Silenus riding a donkey and assisted by satyrs, Bacchus reclining to the right against a Baccante or Ariadne, before putti playfully festooning his thyrsus with ivy by a crater vase, the other plaque representing Winter with Venus imploring a male figure, possibly Adonis, her chariot led by swans to the left, Vulcan to the right before his assistants forging armour, a martial trophy with a shield above, both in 19th century ebonised and giltwood frames (Autumn cracked across and restuck with minor losses along break, spout of ewer chipped, Bacchus’s right arm partially lacking, Winter with firing fault to swan’s neck, slight firing crack to edge of plaque below Adonis’s left foot, Vulcan’s left arm and hammer partially lacking probably from time of manufacture) Approximately 21½ in. x 15½ in. (54.5 cm. x 39 cm.) excluding frames
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