Thursday, December 12, 2024

Ceramic Drapery

Anonymous German Artist
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia
ca. 1710-15
terracotta modello
(for marble statue)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Anonymous Spanish Artist
Pietà
ca. 1680-1700
painted terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Giovanni Battista Foggini
Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici
ca. 1697
terracotta modello
(for marble statue)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Antonio Giorgetti
Kneeling Angel
1665-66
terracotta modello
(for marble statue)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Ignaz Günther
St Augustine
1765
painted terracotta modello
(for altar figure)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Ignaz Günther
St Norbert
1765
painted terracotta modello
(for altar figure)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Anonymous Italian Artist after Alessandro Algardi
Virgin and Child
17th century
painted terracotta
Art Institute of Chicago

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger
Louis XV
ca. 1746-48
terracotta modello
(for marble statue)
Art Institute of Chicago

Nanni de Bartolo
Virgin and Child
ca. 1420-25
painted terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Johann Baptist Straub
God the Father
"Heaven is my Throne and the Earth
 is my Footstool"
- Book of Isaiah
ca. 1760
terracotta modello
(for wood sculpture)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Pietà
ca. 1761
porcelain
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Pietà
ca. 1761
porcelain
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Fürstenberg Manufactory
Germanic Princes playing Chess
1772
porcelain
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Anton Grassi
Offering on the Altar of Love
ca. 1785-90
porcelain
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Meissen Manufactory (Dresden)
Chinoiserie Group
ca. 1750-55
porcelain
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sèvres Manufactory
(after Augustin Pajou)
René Descartes
ca. 1783
porcelain
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Dido: 

O Anna, runne unto the water side,
They say Æneas men are going abourd,
It may be he will steale away with them:
Stay not to answere me, runne Anna runne.             [Exit Anna.]
O foolish Troians that would steale from hence,
And not let Dido understand their drift:
I would have given Achates store of gold,
And Illioneus gum and Libian spice,
The common souldiers rich imbrodered coates,
And silver whistles to controule the windes,
Which Circes sent Sicheus when he lived:
Unworthie are they of a Queenes reward:
See where they come, how might I doe to chide?

– Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queene of Carthage, act IV, scene iv (1594)