Pick of the Week: Doccia displays fatal attraction

The Doccia factory is perhaps best known for its hard-paste sculptures – many of them near-direct copies in porcelain of 17th and early 18th century bronzes. The key figure is the talented modeller Gaspero Bruschi, himself a Florentine sculptor.

A particularly rare figure of an executioner surfaced at Chiswick Auctions on July 25.

This 10in …

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