XVIIIth Century Coach Sculpture Limited Edition

DESCRIPTION

Limited edition gloss finish porcelain sculpture of a XVIII century carriage drawn by four white horses.

This great saloon in the Baroque style is inspired by the original models housed at the Coach Museum in Lisbon, and is one of the most complex and ambitious works by artists of the Lladró High Porcelain workshop. It is an example of extraordinarily beautiful, dainty ornamentation. The nobles of the European courts extended the magnificence of their palaces to the streets with these magnificent carriages.

In this limited edition, attention is given to everything, down to the smallest detail: the four horses, servants´ uniforms, the gowns of the couple, and, above all, the decoration of the carriage. Some fifty different colours were used in its decoration and the application required roughly a hundred hours of painstaking work by the artists. The completion of each piece requires the participation of more than twenty different specialists who together, devote about 300 hours to the task. The result is a single piece which, once fired, is over a metre long and weighs around twenty kilograms.

Lladró is the leader in luxury porcelain since 1953 and have developed proprietary processes that resulted in a wide range of products and styles that is unparalleled in the world of porcelain. The brand still makes every piece in their workshop in Valencia, Spain.

DETAILS

Brand: Lladró

Reference: 01001485

Finish: Gloss porcelain

Weight (kg): 40

Height (cm): 45

Width (cm): 113

Length (cm): 30

Limited Series Units: 500

Sculptor: Francisco Catalá