Dancing Faun, ca. 1750, Italian, Florence, Hard-paste porcelain, Height: 19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, 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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