RELATED LITERATURE
K. Lankheit, Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanifaktur Doccia, Munich, 1982, p. 139, no. 40; p. 115, fig. 207.

In overall good condition with minor surface dirt and a few minor chips to the high points at several places. The relief has been broken and reattached with two joints visible to the background to the left side. The Night's proper right knee has been restored and the man's proper right forearm appears to have been restored, and his hand probably slightly retouched. A general covering slip covering the surface may hide old restorations.
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Florentine painter and sculptor, Casini was Giovan Battista Foggini's student as well as the friend and portraitist of the renowned writer and art collector, Francesco Maria Niccolo Gabburi. This relief is the only one known of the series of the hours of Day and Night created by Casini and cast in bronze by Pietro Cipriani, pupil of Massimilo Soldani Benzi and main Foggini's rival. An inventory from the 18th century, published in 1982, confirms the attribution of this model to Casini. Another version of this model is in the Richard-Ginori museum, in Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence.