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The Fawn Family III |
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Ceramic |
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18 x 18 x 1 in |
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$1,450 |
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HOMAGE TO CLODION.
This Relief sculpture was inspired by the French 18th Century ceramist Clodion. He was a remarkable ceramist at a time when kilns technology did not permit relief tiles of big sizes such as this. Thus Clodion's pieces similar to this one were considered a feat of prodigious skill.
The subject matter was dear to the epoch in which pastoral life was idealized and imagined populated by happy satires or fawns and companion nymphs in a society in which sexual repression was starting to loosen a bit.
Incidentally the word "fauna" for all the animals in a land, comes fro the fact that the nimph Fauna, the comanion of the fawn, was considered the Queen-Godess of animals.
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