Dancing Faun
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Height: 19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
Italian, Florence
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne Eden Woodward Foundation Gift, 1987
Accession Number
1987.293
Tags
About the Artist
Doccia Porcelain Manufactory|Gaspero Bruschi · 1737–1896
The Doccia Porcelain Manufactory, founded in 1737 by Marquis Carlo Ginori near Florence, holds the distinction of being Italy's first hard-paste porcelain manufacturer and one of the few European porcelain enterprises to survive from the eighteenth century to the present day without interruption. Unlike most contemporary ventures — which depended on the patronage and protection of ruling courts — ...