Lladró Gift of Life White 01013586 | Limited Edition 1000 | Antonio Ramos | Retired 2013 | New
✨ One Thousand Pieces. Eleven Years of Production. Retired Forever in 2013.
A mother holding her newborn child. Pure matte white porcelain. The most sacred and the most completely universal subject in the entire history of human art — rendered by sculptor Antonio Ramos in a Lladró limited edition of just 1,000 pieces, issued in 2002 and retired permanently in 2013. The Gift of Life in White is one of the most quietly powerful and the most completely beautiful maternal sculptures Lladró has ever produced.
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The gift of life — the moment a mother first holds her child — is the subject that has moved the greatest artists in human history across every civilization and every era. From the cave paintings of prehistory to the masterpieces of the Renaissance to the finest figurative sculpture of the modern era, this moment has never exhausted its power to communicate something so fundamental, so completely universal, and so deeply felt that it reaches past every difference of language, culture, and experience to something that every human being recognizes immediately as the most important thing.
Lladró — the Valencia house that has spent over seven decades translating the most significant subjects in human experience into the finest Spanish handcrafted porcelain — honored that subject with The Gift of Life, a limited edition produced in two expressions: one in color and one in pure white. The white expression — reference 01013586 — is in many ways the more profound of the two. Because the choice of pure white matte porcelain for this subject is not simply an aesthetic decision. It is a statement of meaning. White in the tradition of sacred art — across Christianity, Buddhism, Shintoism, and virtually every major spiritual tradition in human history — is the color of purity, of beginning, of the specific quality of holy, untouched potential that a new life represents in the most complete and the most completely hopeful sense.
Antonio Ramos — the Lladró sculptor who gave this piece its specific form — brings to the composition the specific qualities of emotional restraint and sculptural intelligence that the subject demands. The Gift of Life is not a dramatic composition. It is a quiet one. A mother holding her child with the specific simplicity and the specific completeness of a gesture that requires nothing additional — no dramatic pose, no elaborate setting, no decorative detail beyond the essential forms of a woman and the life she is holding for the first time.
The matte white finish gives the entire composition a quality of warmth and purity simultaneously — the specific surface quality of fine matte porcelain that absorbs light rather than reflecting it, that creates around the figure a quality of gentle, diffused luminosity that is entirely appropriate to a subject of this stillness and this gravity. Against a glossy finish the figures would have glittered. In matte they glow — warmly, quietly, with the specific quality of something precious that does not need to announce itself.
The limited edition of 1,000 pieces — issued in 2002 and retired permanently in 2013, after eleven years of controlled production — confirms the specific place this piece occupies in the Lladró Heritage collection. Not an open edition available in unlimited quantities. A specifically controlled, numbered expression that was made in 1,000 examples and no more. Since the retirement in 2013 no new examples have been produced. The supply of brand new examples in original packaging with insurance is finite and continuously diminishing.
At 45 centimeters tall — 17.75 inches, a genuinely imposing sculptural scale — The Gift of Life has the physical presence of a serious work of fine porcelain art. This is not a small shelf figurine. It is a sculptural statement — a piece that commands a principal display surface, a mantelpiece, or a dedicated collection space with the quiet, complete authority of something that is simply and permanently extraordinary.
The base is included — providing the formal, complete presentation that a work of this scale and this limited edition significance demands.
✦ KEY FEATURES
✦ Limited Edition of only 1,000 pieces worldwide — one of the most controlled and the most genuinely scarce maternal subject limited editions in the Lladró Heritage collection
✦ Retired permanently in 2013 — never to be produced again, available only through secondary market channels in brand new condition
✦ Sculpted by Antonio Ramos — Lladró sculptor whose restraint and emotional intelligence are perfectly matched to this profound subject
✦ Pure matte white finish — the color of purity and new beginnings, rendered in the specific warm luminosity of finest Spanish matte porcelain
✦ 45 cm tall — commanding, genuinely imposing sculptural presence at the largest scale
✦ Base included — formal, complete presentation for a work of this significance
✦ Insurance included — fully covered worldwide delivery
✦ Issued 2002 — Retired 2013 — eleven years of limited production now permanently closed
✦ Handcrafted in Valencia, Spain — 70+ years of Lladró artisanal excellence
✦ Brand new in original packaging — the most pristine and the most valuable form in which a retired limited edition can be acquired
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| Brand | Lladró |
| SKU | 01013586 |
| Name | The Gift of Life — White |
| Sculptor | Antonio Ramos |
| Edition | Limited Edition — 1,000 Pieces Worldwide |
| Year Issued | 2002 |
| Year Retired | 2013 — Permanently Retired |
| Finish | Matte White |
| Material | Fine Matte Porcelain |
| Height | 45 cm / 17.75 inches |
| Base | Included |
| Insurance | Included |
| Origin | Handcrafted in Valencia, Spain |
| Condition | Brand New in Original Packaging |
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⚡ A WORD ON AVAILABILITY
The Gift of Life White was retired in 2013 — over a decade ago. A brand new example in original packaging with insurance is the most pristine and the most completely valuable form in which any retired Lladró limited edition can be acquired — and at only 1,000 pieces total worldwide, the supply of such examples contracts with every passing year as pieces are acquired, displayed, and absorbed into permanent collections. The opportunity to acquire this piece in brand new condition will not improve with time. It will only become rarer and more difficult. If this sculpture has found its way to your attention, the right moment to act is now.
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