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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":"pp. 47-48, Cat. 21","free":"21. Mars and Venus at Vulcan’s Forge\r\nmid-19th century\r\nhard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze\r\npainted with colours and gold\r\nh 11,3 cm; width 14,3 cm\r\nno mark\r\ninv. C.77-1932\r\nbequest: Leigh Tolson\r\nThese two rectangular plaques have bas-relief scenes representing Mars and Venus at Vulcan’s Forge and a Bacchanal. The scenes are based on two plaques attributed to Guglielmo Della Porta that belonged to a set of sixteen dedicated to the Metamorphosis by Ovid (P. Cannata, in RILIEVI E PLACCHETTE DAL XV AL XVIII SECOLO 1982, p. 72-76, cat. 69- 75). The models in lead are in the Museo di Doccia (inv. 6463, 6468); the one with the Bacchanal is labelled “Il banchetto degli dei”. The models in lead were probably made for the factory between 1743 and 1745 by Antonio Francesco Selvi or by Anton Filippo Maria Weber (AGL, Libro Contabile 1737-1746, c. 221v). The plaster moulds, however, were probably made by Girolamo Cristofani who, On April 9th1745, received payment “for having made 4 bas-reliefs and 16 large ones” (AGL,LibroContabile, c. 221v). For the plaque (cat. 22) Della Porta seems to have been inspired by a fresco on the ground floor of Villa Giulia in Rome, which has been attributed to Taddeo Zuccari, or to Prospero Fontana (P.Cannata, in RILIEVI E PLACCHETTE DALXV AL XVIII SECOLO, 1982, p. 74, cat. 76). The acquisition of the Bacchanal plaque at the Paris exhibitionin1855 as “Italian Modern” suggests a date for both plaques to themid-19th century. 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