Dancing Faun

Doccia Porcelain Manufactory|Gaspero Bruschi

ca. 1750 · Hard-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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.

Artist

Doccia Porcelain Manufactory|Gaspero Bruschi

Date

ca. 1750

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain

Culture

Italian, Florence

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, Anne Eden Woodward Foundation Gift, 1987