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Spring
The collection record classifies this work as sculpture. It is dated mid-1700s. Recorded culture or place: Italy, near Florence, mid-18th century.
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- Museum title
- Spring
- Date
- mid-1700s
- Culture / origin
- Italy, near Florence, mid-18th century
- Materials and technique
- porcelain
- Dimensions
- Overall: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Doccia Porcelain Factory (Italian); Massimiliano Soldani (Italian, 1656–1740)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1999.213
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Although most 18th-century European porcelain factories produced three-dimensional works, these were often small figures intended to ornament dinner tables or mantelpieces. The factory at Doccia outside Florence was more ambitious, turning to baroque sculptors of the great local tradition to supply models for works in porcelain. In 1743 the factory purchased from the heirs of the famous Florentine sculptor Massimiliano Soldani (1656-1740) a number of that artist's models. Included were models for a series of reliefs representing the four seasons that were created by Soldani in 1708 for Ferdinando de' Medici. One of the reliefs was Spring, or The Realm of Flora, which was then executed in porcelain.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund · CC0
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