Lot 441
  • 441

Two Doccia cane handles circa 1755-65

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • 7.5cm., 3in.; 7cm., 2¾in.
the first an actor, in the white, with a theatrical mask displaced beneath his headcloth; the second a woman wearing a black headscarf, her features stippled in black and red

Exhibited

Zurich, Meisterwerke, 1980, catalogue nos. 279 and 280. 

Literature

(the first) G. Morazzoni, Le Porcellane Italiane, pl. 243a

Condition

Male- some specking to the glaze, but overall in good condition. Female- very minor losses to the black enamel, but overall in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Another example of the first was in the Irwin Untermayer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbrock; catalogue fig. 201 (as Venice)