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The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1999.213", "current_location": "301 Baroque Sculpture Mezzanine", "title": "Spring", "creation_date": "mid-1700s", "creation_date_earliest": 1725, "creation_date_latest": 1775, "artists_tags": [ "gender unknown", "male" ], "culture": [ "Italy, near Florence, mid-18th century" ], "technique": "porcelain", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "Sculpture", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)", "dimensions": { "overall": { "height": 0.406, "height_inch": 16, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.559, "width_inch": 22, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Rainer Zietz Ltd., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1999", "sortorder": null } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This relief representing spring includes many creatures: lions, a dog, and an eagle can all be spotted.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Although most 18th-century European porcelain factories produced three-dimensional works, these were often small figures intended to ornament dinner tables or mantelpieces. The factory at Doccia outside Florence was more ambitious, turning to baroque sculptors of the great local tradition to supply models for works in porcelain. In 1743 the factory purchased from the heirs of the famous Florentine sculptor Massimiliano Soldani (1656-1740) a number of that artist's models. Included were models for a series of reliefs representing the four seasons that were created by Soldani in 1708 for Ferdinando de' Medici. 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