Lot N. 528
Hermes at rest (Mercury seated)
nineteenth century
from the biscuit original by Filippo Tagliolini, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, reproducing a bronze found in Herculaneum in the Villa dei Papiri in 1758, some defects and omissions
Compared to the original, our group presents the 'censorship' of the fig leaf, probably added later
h cm 30x18x16
The biscuit is located in the Silver Museum, Palazzo Pitti, Florence while the bronze is kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Bibliography: A. C. Perrotti, The porcelain of the Royal Ferdinandea Factory. Naples: 1978. table CCXLIV.
Italian porcelains at Palazzo Pitti. Florence: 1986. p. 149.