A Capodimonte porcelain yellow-ground coffee cup and saucer, circa 1750
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September 26, 12:23 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Lot Details
Description
probably painted by Giovanni Caselli with arrangements of fruit including pomegranates and a cut melon before trees within shield-shaped gilt-edged cartouches, with gilt angular handle and gilt rims, fleur de lys marks in underglaze-blue
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Cup 8 cm, 3 1/8 in. high
Saucer 13,3 cm, 5 1/4 in. diameter
Semenzato, Rome, 20 March 1989, lot 236;
The Art of the Italian Potter, maiolica and porcelain from a Private Collection, Christie’s, London, 25 May 2011, lot 74.
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, December 1986 - April 1987, no. 87 (one of a pair).
A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1986, p. 139, cat. no. 87, and pl. XXVIII [I 8].
Examples of Capodimonte porcelain wares with a solid colour ground are rare: examples are known in blue, turquoise and yellow and two unique examples with a brown and a green ground also exist. For further discussion of the 'fondi colorati' at the factory see A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1986, pp. 135-136, where the author mentions that the yellow ground was always paired with still-life decoration of fruit.
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