Groupe en blanc italien napolitain, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, circa 1780

An Italian Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea biscuit group, circa 1780

Depicting a seated lady fainting, supported by a young gentleman standing at the rear, another lady, probably her servant, to the right and a portly seated older gentleman to the left observing through a glass in his left hand, a child holding a lamb at the front of the rocky base, 24cm high, incised 2 to rear of base (female servant's head restuck, minor chips and restoration)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Italian Private Collection

The head of the female attendant on the right is cleanly restuck (narrow overpaintng to the repair).
The lamb's left ear is restored. The tips of the ribbons on the child's hat are chipped.
The tips of the feathers of the lady's hat are chipped.
The ends of the gentleman's hair ribbon at the rear are chipped.
The glass in the seated gentleman's left hand is restored.
Otherwise in good condition.

Please note that there are large filled firing cracks to the base (original condition).