The sculptor of the present terracotta group most likely worked in the circles of Giovanni Battista Foggini and Giuseppe Piamontini in Florence during the later 17th Century. Interestingly, the billowing drapery, incorporating a combination of large, planar sections forming loops of folds with passages of vertical parallel folds, is similar to the drapery in two figures by Giovacchino Fortini(1670-1736), a Florentine Baroque sculptor who worked with Foggini. Compare, the figures of San Filippo Benizi and Santa Giuliana in the Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata, Florence, in G. Pratesi(cur.), Repertorio della Scultura Fiorentina, vol.II, Turin, 1993, nos. 256 and 257.

This lot is sold with a Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from Oxford Authentication Ltd. indicating that sample N106h29 was last fired between 200 and 450 years ago.