The present lot, a porcelain figure bearing the name of the medieval Saint Clothilde, has deep precedent within Gio Ponti’s œuvre and further calls upon a multiplicity of art historical references. Stylistically, her origins are in the Pittura Metafisica (metaphysical art) that was influential to Gio Ponti at various points in his career. Formally the work relates to several of his designs for porcelain and glass figures, most notably his Etruscan stilemes for Richard Ginori in the 1920s, and his Kings and Queens exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum in Italy at Work in 1950. Clothilde also owes much to the Western traditions of three-dimensional figural representation: specifically her twisting posture to the figura serpentinatas of Mannerist sculptures.