European Furniture, Silver, & Ceramics
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Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, Sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
A Doccia White Figure of a Moorish Slave, Circa 1760-70
Lot Closed
April 19, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, Sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
A Doccia White Figure of a Moorish Slave, Circa 1760-70
modeled with his wrists and ankles shackled, seated on rockwork against a tree stump
height 9 ⅝ in.
24.5 cm
Trinity Fine Art, Ltd., London
The figures of bound slaves made by Pietro Tacca for the monument to Ferdinand de' Medici at Livorno, were very influential, and Giambattista Foggini's slightly later figures of bound slaves and of captured corsairs, in their turn, inspired a range of porcelain figures at Doccia.
The present model and the companion female model are most recently discussed by Rita Balleri, 'Copying, Reworking, and Inventing the Sculpture Models at the Ginori Factory in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries', The French Porcelain Society Journal, Vol. VI, 2016, pp. 163-182. Balleri notes that the models do not form part of the current collection of Doccia models but do appear in a list of models made by Giuseppe Piamontini and sold to Ginori around 1750 by Giovan Battista. They are described as: '[...] un moro nudo in piedi, una mora nuda in piedi [...]', '[a male Moorish slave standing and a female Moorish salve standing] (quoted from Balleri, op.cit., pp. 178-79), though it is not, as yet, possible to attribute the models to him.
A pair of these two Moorish subjects was sold at Sotheby's London, July 8, 1997, lot 19. A single male figure with the mustachioed face is in the National Museum Stockholm, see L. Lisci, La Porcellana di Doccia, 1963, pl.43.
The present model and the companion female model are most recently discussed by Rita Balleri, 'Copying, Reworking, and Inventing the Sculpture Models at the Ginori Factory in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries', The French Porcelain Society Journal, Vol. VI, 2016, pp. 163-182. Balleri notes that the models do not form part of the current collection of Doccia models but do appear in a list of models made by Giuseppe Piamontini and sold to Ginori around 1750 by Giovan Battista. They are described as: '[...] un moro nudo in piedi, una mora nuda in piedi [...]', '[a male Moorish slave standing and a female Moorish salve standing] (quoted from Balleri, op.cit., pp. 178-79), though it is not, as yet, possible to attribute the models to him.
A pair of these two Moorish subjects was sold at Sotheby's London, July 8, 1997, lot 19. A single male figure with the mustachioed face is in the National Museum Stockholm, see L. Lisci, La Porcellana di Doccia, 1963, pl.43.