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Manifattura, Giovanni Mollica
Bust of Plato from the Villa of the Papyri
terracotta sculpture
cm 32
incised signature G. Mollica on the plinth of the base
Slight filet at the base
Giovanni Mollica was already a ceramist at the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, which founded the Mollica factory in 1842.
The bust derives from a bronze original preserved in the Mann collections and from the famous library of the Villa dei Papiri discovered in Herculaneum.