L12309

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Lot 210
  • 210

A pair of Cozzi teacups and saucers, attributed to the Master of the thin and scattered tree, circa 1770

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • ceramics
painted, possibly by the master of the thin and scattered trees, in a polychrome palette dominated by green and purple, with lakes in elegant gardens, each scene depicting a single figure with a gazebo or a fantastic erection, the cups with loop handles unusually surmounted by a row of three golden balls, red anchor marks, one cup incised x, its saucer incised ()

Provenance

With Alessandro Orsi, Milan, 1950

Condition

a few scratches
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Catalogue Note

For a cup painted with the decoration "ad albarelli radi" see F. Stazzi, Le porcellane Veneziane di Geminiano e Vincenzo Cozzi, Venice, s.d., n.XXXVI, p.212.