BACCHANTE ON A PANTHER WOMAN SCULPTURE

The BACCHANTE ON A PANTHER WOMAN SCULPTURE is among the most ambitious figurative sculptures in Lladró’s modern catalog — a work that places the brand directly in conversation with the great tradition of Western painting. Sculpted by Francisco Polope and limited to 500 examples worldwide, it draws from the Bacchae of Ancient Greece and the painters who later made that tradition their own: Titian, Michelangelo, Rubens, and most directly, William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1855 canvas Bacchante with a Panther.

The Contrast That Makes the Composition

Lladró’s High Porcelain artisans have built the entire drama of this piece around a deliberate tension between light and dark, bare and adorned. The animal sculpture of the Bacchante — rendered in matte white porcelain with extraordinary anatomical refinement — sits atop a panther whose body is a tour de force of applied decoration: deep blue-black porcelain finished in gloss, covered in hand-enamelled gold scrollwork, teal lacework, jewelled accents, and a red-rope harness that coils along the figure’s flanks with complete technical conviction. The woman’s semi-nudity, so precisely rendered in the whitest possible porcelain, throws every element of that decorative richness into sharper relief. The contrast is not only visual — it is the point. Sensuality on one side, power on the other; stillness above, forward motion below.

Specifications

• Sculptor: Francisco Polope
• Workshop: Lladró High Porcelain
• Material: Matte and gloss high-fired porcelain with complex hand-applied enamelling
• Finish: Gloss
• Height: 22.047 in
• Width: 30.709 in
• Depth: 14.567 in
• Weight: 23.15 lb
• Edition: Limited Series of 500 units
• Base Included: No
• Origin: Handcrafted in Spain by Lladró

A Work That Earns Its Place Beside Museum Pieces

At over 30 inches wide and approaching 22 inches tall, this art sculptures for sale has the physical authority of a major institutional object. The combination of techniques — matte porcelain skin, gloss panther body, hand-enamelled gold and teal decoration, red-cord detailing — requires dozens of individually skilled operations from the High Porcelain workshop, each applied by hand. With only 500 examples in the series and insurance included with every purchase, this is a piece that Lladró regards — and prices — at the level of fine art. For collectors of Francisco Polope’s work, Lladró High Porcelain, or classical figurative sculpture more broadly, it is a defining acquisition.