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    		• Fonderia Artistica Versiliese,
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Woodstock
     
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    Il Porcellino, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Lucarini, Gino, sculptor.
    Tacca, Pietro, 1577-1640, sculptor. (copy after)
    Fonderia Artistica Versiliese, founder.
    Title: 
    Il Porcellino, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Little Pig, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed ca. 1985.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Bronze.
    Inscription: 
    Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A semi-reclining boar is installed in a square planter. It balances on its two front legs while sitting on its proper left haunch. The sculpture's plinth holds flowers and plants and its decorative elements include tiny frogs and lizards and small flora and fauna.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Pig
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Woodstock
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    The Gilded Carriage, 95 Tinker Street, Woodstock, New York 12498
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture is a copy of a mid-19th century bronze boar, cast after a 1577 stone boar made by Pietro Tacca and located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. (The mid-19th century version is part of a fountain in front of the Straw Market in Florence). The Woodstock boar was cast by Gino Lucarini and was brought to the United States in 1985. IAS files contain related correspondence from The Gilded Carriage.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS NY001326
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