Lot 43
  • 43

A Naples coffee can and saucer circa 1790-1800

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Description

  • crowned N in underglaze-blue to saucer, incised 8 and x to cup
the saucer finely painted with a scene depicting Hercules in combat with the Hydra, each with a band of gilt foliate scrollwork motifs between borders of dotted panels, the cup with a gilt foliate border inside the rim and gilt borders to the well

Provenance

Joachim Murat, King of Naples (1808-15);
Thence by descent until 2001, when acquired by the present owner