FIGURE, SHOWER, GINORI MANUFACTURE, 1760 CIRCA in achromatic porcelain depicting "the allegory of Winter", modelled on one of the four seasons sculpted in ivory by Balthasar Permoser. The subject was reproduced in porcelain by various European manufacturers, with some variations (see for example the statuette by Anton Carl Luplau, Winter, 1775/76, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, inv 163). Klaus Lankheit mentions in the list of models a figure, now in the Correale Museum in Sorrento, with the left arm hanging down rather than holding a torch, while another polychrome model of the same type is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the inventory of the Doccia factory the series of the four seasons is cited around 1760 as "The four Seasons of Baldassar without pan, and with candlestick, about half an arm's height". According to Lankheit there are two series of seasons by Permoser mentioned in the inventory, which may concern the groups of figures with and without candlesticks; cm 20x10,5x10 A GINORI FIGURE OF WINTER, DOCCIA, CIRCA 1760 Comparative bibliography K. Lankheit, Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia, Munich 1982, table 96; J. Winter (ed.), Le Statue del Marchese Ginori. Sculptures in white porcelain of Doccia, Florence 2003, p. 27 fig. 25; J. Munger, La porcellana di Doccia del XVIII secolo al Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, in "Quaderni degli amici di Doccia" I (2007), ill. 18 "RTF to HTML .Net".