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He was born into a Sephardic Jewish family of Spanish descent, but was baptised into the Christian religion at the age of 22. Bernal studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, and subsequently became a prominent Whig politician. He built a reputation for himself as a man of taste and culture through the collection he amassed and later in life he became the president of the British Archaeological Society. Yet the main source of income which enabled him to do this was the profits from enslaved labour.\r\n\r\nIn 1811, Bernal inherited three sugar plantations in Jamaica, where over 500 people were eventually enslaved. Almost immediately, he began collecting works of art and antiquities. After the emancipation of those enslaved in the British Caribbean in the 1830s, made possible in part by acts of their own resistance, Bernal was awarded compensation of more than £11,450 (equivalent to over £1.5 million today). This was for the loss of 564 people enslaved on Bernal's estates who were classed by the British government as his 'property'. They included people like Antora, and her son Edward, who in August 1834 was around five years old (The National Archives, T 71/49). Receiving the money appears to have led to an escalation of Bernal's collecting.\r\n\r\nWhen Bernal died in 1855, he was celebrated for 'the perfection of his taste, as well as the extent of his knowledge' (Christie and Manson, 1855). His collection was dispersed in a major auction during which the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House, which later became the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A), was the biggest single buyer. ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bowl, cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Doccia porcelain factory, Florence, 1782-1783","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita, Biancalana, Alessandro, d'Agliano Andreina, and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, - The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’ numero VII - 2013, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014","id":"AUTH332410"},"details":"p.35, Cat. 10","free":"10. Bowl with cover and plate\r\n1782-1783\r\nGiovan Battista Fanciullacci (painter)\r\nhard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze\r\npainted in colours and gold\r\nbowl h 13,8 cm; width 19 cm; plate diam. 24 cm\r\nunder the cup “G.B.F. 1783” in gold; under the\r\nplate “F. 1782” in gold\r\ninv. C.2008 &A&B-1855\r\npurchase: Bernal Collection sale, £ 16.10.0\r\nThis bowl and plate have three polychrome mythological scenes inside of framed cartouches painted in a wide range of colours. The handles on the bowl and on the top are painted blue and resemble stylized branches. The top is decorated with festoons and geometrical motifs forming a fret. On the bowl there is a scene representing Pyramus and Thisbe and one representing Cephalus and Procris; on the plate there is a scene with Nessus and Deianeira. All of the scenes are based on engravings in Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide, by abbot Antoine Banier that were printed in Paris from1767 to 1771.The first scene (BANIER 1767-1771, vol. II, 1768, plate 49) was created by Charles Monnet, and engraved by Nicolas De Launay, the second (BANIER 1767-1771, vol. II, 1768, plate 81) was also created by Monnet and the painter Noel Le Mire, the third (BANIER 1767-1771, vol. III, 1769, plate 91), was created by Jean Michel Moreau, called Le Jeune, and the engraver Jean Jacques Le Veau. This set was acquired in 1855 and was believed to be German (ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION) 1855, p. 29, lot 374; it was later correctly attributed to the Ginori factory by Arthur Lane (LANE 1954, plate 51a). Under the bowl and the plate there are initials that can be attributed to the decorator Giovan Battista Fanciullacci (for further information see BIANCALANA 2009, p. 38; RONZIO 1997, p. 12-24). He is one of the very few painters working at Doccia who signed their works. This exceptionally fine bowl can be considered his masterpiece along with the decoration of the door of the tabernacle of the porcelain altar in the church of San Romolo at Colonnata which was donated with other furnishings by the Ginori factory to this churchin1783 (for further information, see NISTRI s.d., p. 3-14; also, MONTEFUSCO 1981, p. 44, 55; GINORI LISCI 1963, p. 92, 99,\r\nfig. 67, plate LX; BIANCALANA 2009, p. 60).\r\nA.B.\r\nBibliography: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED\r\nCOLLECTION 1855, p. 29 lot 374;MORAZZONI\r\n1935, plate CXXVIII, (only the cup as “Venezia:\r\nManifattura Cozzi”); LANE 1954, plate 51A; LANE\r\n1963, fig. 111;GINORI LISCI 1963, plateXLV; FERRARI\r\n1966, p. 112;MOTTOLAMOLFINO 1976-1977,\r\nvol. 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