Rare Franklin Mint Spanish Riding School Vienna Horse Statues Figurines & CofA
Franklin Mint "The Haute Ecole" Porcelain Sculpture Complete Collection "like new" Beautiful Collection of 6 Original Works of Art by Pamela Du Boulay authorised by The Spanish Riding School of Vienna and Exclusive to Franklin Mint. Hand-Cast in Fine Bisque Porcelain with gold trimmed base The 6 Sculptures are:- Passage, Piaffe, Trot Allonge, Pirouette, Travers, Levade Comes with the Original Display Unit Shown. This series was made by the Franklin Mint in the early 1990s. While perfectly collectible as is, for those who have ceramic kilns, these porcelain bisques is also perfect for creating a glaze custom model horses, though one might need to air-erase the gold rim before doing this. Approximate horse dimensions: 6.75" H x 5.75" L x 3.25 D. Pamela du Boulay is perhaps best known for her 1970s hand made Rydal latex model horses. However, she has also sculpted a number of bronze pieces, as well as the lovely "The Horse with A Golden Saddle" piece offered in resin and fine bone china by Animal Artistry / Donna Chaney. And of course, she sculpted a number of horse pieces for the Franklin Mint, including "Black Beauty", "My Friend Flicka", "The Red Pony", "Misty of Chincoteague" and others, such as "King of the Wind" and "Silver". A little about the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria.. The Spanish Riding School (or Spanische Hofreitschule) of Vienna, Austria, is a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses. The riding school was established during the Austrian Empire in 1572. It is the only riding academy in the world which has been cultivating the art of equitation in its purest form for over 400 years and which trains both horses and riders according to methods which have been used for centuries! The objective of classical equitation is to study the way the horse naturally moves and to cultivate the highest levels of haute école elegance that the horse is capable of. The result creates an unparalleled harmony between rider and horse. It was named for the Spanish horses that were, and still are, the mainstay of the riding school. Today the horses are bred in a court stud in Lipica (Italian : Lipizza), near Trieste in modern Slovenia and at the Piber Stud in Austria. CONDITION Like New, No breaks, cracks, crazing or chips. The items appear just as they came from the Franklin Mint.
The factory white felt padding on the base is clean and intact. They are from a non-smoking home and are very clean, most of there lives they were stored away. They will be carefully packed for protection in transit. Please ask questions prior to purchasing, thank you for looking! The item "Rare Franklin Mint Spanish Riding School Vienna Horse Statues Figurines & CofA" is in sale since Monday, December 31, 2018.
This item is in the category "Collectibles\Animals\Horses\ Merch. The seller is "sllsslls" and is located in Painesville, Ohio.This item can be shipped to United States.