168. Two Doccia white porcelain plaques with bas-relief decoration, circa 1760 Each bas-relief plaque decorated with an Ovidian scene in white porcelain, one depicting Meleagre hunting the Caledonian boar, the other depicting the massacre of the Niobids, 26.2cm x 11cm high, (2) Provenance With Antichità Orsi, Milan Literature Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, pp. 270-273, cats. 44-45 These relief plaques, probably sculpted by Anton Filippo Maria Weber (1699-1751) or Anton Francesco Selvi (1679-1753), depict two scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses: the first depicts The Death of the Niobids, in which the children of Niobe are slaughtered by Apollo and Diana (depicted in the upper centre of the plaque armed with bows) in retribution for Niobe's behaviour towards the deities' own mother Latona, and The Hunt of Meleagre, who is depicted in hot pursuit of the Caledonian boar. The oval shape of the original plaques by Della Porta (see illustrated images) were extrapolated by the artists at Doccia to a rectangular shape, of which the lead cast of Death of the Niobids is illustrated alongside a polychrome porcelain example by Carl Wendelin Anreiter in Rita Balleri, Fragili Tesori dei Principi, 2018, pp. 340-343, cats. 93-94.