Saint-Cloud or Mennecy - Lot 232

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Saint-Cloud or Mennecy - Lot 232
Saint-Cloud or Mennecy Large figure of a bear in white enameled soft porcelain seated on a rocky terrace decorated with foliage. 18th century. H. 21 cm, L. 24.5 cm Accents and firing defects. 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 in the Pitti Palace in Florence and the Royal Palace in Turin, originated in the Royal Palace of 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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