Provenance: Porcelain manufactory, Doccia, near Florence, c. 1780.[1] Arese collection, Osnago, near Milan; (Alessandro Cesati Antiques & Works, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.
[1] Klaus Lankheit, _Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia_, Munich, 1982: 25, 138, pl. 73. The relief is identified by Lankheit as number 108 in the inventory of Doccia waxes drawn up around 1780, even though the inventory gives the artist's name as Girolamo Ticciati (1671-1744).