Allegory The Rising of the Sun

The bas-relief with the Allegory The Rising of the Sun is the porcelain translation of a wax model recorded in the eighteenth-century Inventory of Models of the Doccia Manufactory and still preserved in the collections of the Ginori Museum (inv. 217). The original prototype has recently been identified in a bronze casting, part of a group of six panels depicting The Hours of Day and Night, a work by the Florentine sculptor Giovanni Casini dating from around 1720, currently in a private collection. 

The bas-reliefs with The Hours of Day and Night by Casini were particularly popular at Doccia from the mid-18th century onwards, as evidenced by a series of oval porcelain plaques, whose scenes were also widely used in the decorated bas-relief embellishment of coolers, urns, and crater-shaped vases (Ginori Museum, invv. 5106, 8356-8357).