A Laocoön by Filippo Della Valle

Discusses a bronze Laocoön recently sold at Bonham’s. Della Valle helped interpret correctly the bronze and its attribution in the Doccia models’ inventory.

This publication discusses a bronze Laocoön recently sold at Bonham’s. Its new owners attributed it to Giuseppe Piamontini (1663–1744) ‘because of its manufacture and its extremely close proximity to the Doccia model’, the model employed for a porcelain Laocoön produced in the factory set up by Carlo Ginori (1702–57) in 1737 at Doccia ne...