Saint-Cloud or Mennecy - Lot 231

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Saint-Cloud or Mennecy - Lot 231
Saint-Cloud or Mennecy Large white enameled porcelain figure of a wild boar sitting on a rocky terrace decorated with foliage. 18th century. H. 21.5 cm, L. 26 cm Accents to the head and firing defects. This boar figure is based on a bronze by Pietro Tacca circa 1634. Andreina d'Agliano has demonstrated that several animals in white soft-paste porcelain from Mennecy or Saint-Cloud and Chantilly made around 1745-1750, now kept at the Pitti Palace in Florence and the Royal Palace in Turin, originated from the Royal Palace in Parma and may have been brought from France on the occasion of the marriage between the Infant of Spain, Don Filippo, and Louis XV's daughter, Louise Elisabeth de Parme. Thus, a pair of wild boars and a pair of bears (probably in Chantilly porcelain, of a different model to the present bear) are now in Florence, while two roosters, a stag and a goat are in Turin (see Andreina d'Agliano, "Some French Soft paste Animals, From the Collections of the Dukes of Parma", The French Porcelain Society Journal, vol. I, 2001, pp. 103-112). A second stag is held in a private collection and studied by Selma Schwartz, Brittle Beauty, Reflections on 18th-century European Porcelain, 2023, no. 36, pp. 230-233.
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