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Derby Porcelain, Derby (manufacturer)
Agostino Carlini (modeller)
Figures of Taste and Sight (1750-1755)
porcelain (soft-paste)
14.6 × 11.4 × 10.5 cm (Taste) 16.5 × 11.8 × 11.3 cm (Sight)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
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Figures of Taste and Sight
(1750-1755)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
14.6 × 11.4 × 10.5 cm (Taste) 16.5 × 11.8 × 11.3 cm (Sight)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Porcelain sculpture may be considered the quintessential eighteenth-century European art form, a material with enormous symbolic significance. The prestige and importance of the newly mastered porcelain medium attracted many academically trained sculptors, among them some of the finest artists of the period. Many of the leading modellers of the great European porcelain factories also held appointments as court sculptors. Agostino Carlini was a Genoese-trained sculptor employed as a decorative woodcarver by Willem IV in The Hague between 1749 and 1751, before arriving in England in around 1752 where he remained for the rest of his life. These figures are from a set of five representing the senses.