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The Fawn Family, Homage to Clodion |
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Ceramic |
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18 x 18 x 1 in |
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$2,300 |
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This relief was inspired by the French sculptor of the eighteenth century called Clodion. He was a remarkable ceramist at a time when kilns did not permit relief "tiles" of big sizes such as this one. Thus Clodion's pieces similar to this, were considered prodigious. The subject was dear to the epoch in which pastroral life was idealized and imagined populated by happy satires (or fawns) and companion nymphs, by a society in which sexual repression was starting to loosen a bit.
Incidentally the word "fauna" for all animals in a region, comes from the fact that the nymph Fauna, the companion of the Fawn, was considered the queen goddess of all animals.
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