The Tagliolini Laocoon group. Now in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts...

The Tagliolini Laocoon group. Now in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

1785
Italy Naples
Porcelain Biscuit
52 cm (20 ¹/₂ inches)

Provenance

European private collection

Literature

Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Angela Carola Perrotti,1986, Naples,491.
Le porcellane Italiane, Giuseppe Morazzoni, 1960, Milan, Vol.II,367.
Tagliolini è la porcellana di Napoli, Alvar Gonzalez Palacios, 1988, Turin, 11, 157.

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