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The Carlo Colli Collection of Doccia Porcelain: Part II

Lot 172

Buste de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche en porcelaine de Doccia, vers 1755-60

A Doccia bust of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, circa 1755-60

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30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET

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€3,000 - €5,000

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Buste de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche en porcelaine de Doccia, vers 1755-60

A Doccia bust of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, circa 1755-60

Portrait bust of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (1717-1780) on a base with the initals "MT" in relief inside of a laurel wreath and enclosed within scrolled edges, atop a plinth with with relief-moulded scrolled sides and rebated base, 13.6cm high, (broken and restored)

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Provenance
With Giancarlo Sestieri, Rome

Literature
Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, p. 218, cat. 23

This portrait was part of a matrimonial pair that included Maria Theresa's husband, Francis Stephen of Lorraine (1708-1765) (Biancalana, op. cit.). In 1737, around the time of the Doccia manufactory's founding, the last of the Medici Grand Dukes died, bringing Tuscany under gubernatorial control of the Habsburg monarchs. The pair are also depicted together in profile in a relief plaque in the Museo Duca di Martina, Naples, inv. 2953 (published by Claudia Lehner-Jobst, "La collezione del polo museale della Campania", in Quaderni Amici di Doccia, XII (2019), no. 14).

A version of this bust in stoneware is in the The Princely Collections of Liechtenstein, Vienna (inv. PO 878).

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