Dancing Faun

Manufactory Doccia Porcelain Manufactory Italian

Modeler Model attributed to Gaspero Bruschi Italian

ca. 1750

Not on view

This porcelain figure is a much-reduced version of a famous antique marble housed in the Uffizi in Florence. The Ginori porcelain manufactory, located in Doccia, near Florence, produced a variety of sculptures of considerable scale derived from antique models; this ambitious program tested the technical possibilities of porcelain, which was a new medium in Europe at this time, and responded to the taste for all things classical.

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Title: Dancing Faun
Manufactory: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory (Italian, 1737–1896)
Modeler: Model attributed to Gaspero Bruschi (Italian, ca. 1710–1780, active 1737–80)
Date: ca. 1750
Culture: Italian, Florence
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions: Height: 19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
Credit Line: Purchase, Anne Eden Woodward Foundation Gift, 1987
Object Number: 1987.293
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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