Detail View: The AMICA Library: Spring
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1999.213
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Doccia Porcelain Factory
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Italian
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1656 - 1740
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Biography:
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Founded near Florence by Marchese Carlo Ginori, who brought from Vienna in 1737 the painter J.K.W. Anreiter von Zirnfeld and Giorgio delle Torri, both of whom had worked at the Du Paquier Vienna Porcelain Factory and knew the formula for porcelain.
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Doccia Porcelain Factory
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Creator Name:
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Soldani, Massimiliano
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Italian
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1656 - 1740
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Massimiliano Soldani
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Title:
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Spring
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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mid-1700s
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Creation Start Date:
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1825
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Creation End Date:
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1875
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Materials and Techniques:
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porcelain plaque
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Classification Term:
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Ceramic
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 40.6cm x 55.9cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1999.213
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Credit Line:
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The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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Rights:
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Context:
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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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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1999.213.TIF
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