Lot 106: AFTER ODOARDO TABACCHI (1831-1905) The Diving Girl

AFTER ODOARDO TABACCHI (1831-1905) The Diving Girl (La Tuffolina), porcelain, 14 3/4" high Note: La Tuffolina became Tabacchi's most famous work since the original bronze was exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition in 1878 and porcelain reproductions were produced in England by the Robinson & Leadbenton factory, sized 24 1/2" (see The Parian Phenomenon, 1984). The girl, depicted in striped bathing costume on the point of diving into a pool, was typical of the latter half of the nineteenth century on the continent, but would have been seen as risque in England at the time.