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September 26, 11:47 AM GMT
Estimate
2,200 - 2,800 EUR
Lot Details
Description
painted in Kakiemon style with flowering plants between two spider’s webs, each with a spider, the interior with an iron-red scroll border, iron-red enamel V. and three dots, incised CG (?)
7 cm, 2 3/4 in. high
Gianni Fedeli Collection, Milan (by 1976).
A. Mottola Molfino, L'arte della porcellana in Italia, Il Veneto E La Toscana, vol. I, Busto Arsizio 1976, tavs. 40/41;
L. Melegati, Giovanni Vezzi e le sue porcellane, Milan 1998, p. 186, cited.
Melegati, op. cit., illustrates a second coffee cup featuring this highly unusual motif of spider webs, and notes that he was aware of only two other pieces of Vezzi porcelain with this rare type of decoration, the present coffee cup, and another which had recently been on the art market at the time of his publication.
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