Cozzi Manufacture (attr) Venice, 18th century. "Hercules and the Nemean lion", polychrome porcelain group depicting the hero who thrusts the knife into the jaws of the Nemean fair (h. cm 9.5) (minor defects)     This subject recurs in the work of Cozzi, who represented it in different models such as the specimens conserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and in the collection of the Museo Civico di Torino at Palazzo Madama.     For comparison see:   C. Maritano, Le porcellane veneziane di Emanuele d'Azeglio, in Geminiano Cozzi e le sue porcellane, edited by A. Craievich and M. Andaldi, exhibition catalogue (Venice, Ca' Rezzonico), Venice 2016, p. 58   F. Stazzi, Le porcellane veneziane di Geminiano e Vincenzo Cozzi, Fantoni Libri Arte - Venezia, 1964, p. 243 fig. 80

Estimate € 350 - 400

Sold € 2,200