Sculpture Through its history, the Royal Factory produced a broad repertoire of very diverse small figures and sculptural groups: religious, mythological, historical, allegorical, etc.
L’Alcora Ceramics: Sculpture
The Royal Factory also produced busts of some of the owners of the Factory (the 10th Count of Aranda and the Duke of Híjar), animals and other garden and interior decorations (pyramidal centrepieces, ornamental vases, candelabras, etc.).
Sculpture was less well-known than Porcelain and Ornamental Plaques but it still was very important in the Royal Factory, and this is why the responsible for the department of sculpture were well-known artists like Josep Ochande (from 1727), Julián López (from 1745), Joaquín Ferrer Miñana (late 18th century) and his son José Ferrer Pardo (early 19th century).
The most important sculptures are the series of four pieces: like the four elements, the four parts of the world or the four seasons. The sculptural groups of the Farnese Bull and Neptune are also highly representative.
The figures that represent actors and dancers of the Commedia dell’Arte are outstanding. These pieces are polychromatic and small (20 centimetres high) and some are preserved in a private collection in l’Alcora, in the National Ceramics Museum in Valencia and in the National Museum Adrien Dubouché in Limoges (France).
