A Capodimonte two-handled écuelle and cover, circa 1750

with green and gilt fruiting branch handles and finial, each piece, painted by Giovanni Caselli, with studies of fruit in landscape vignettes within gilt line borders (some restoration, cracks and losses)

With Sestrieri, Rome, 1960

The body with tight crack extending from rim by circuitous route to footrim, and with restoration round both handles. The cover with knop restored, some twigs missing
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For an écuelle and cover painted with still life of fruit  in a wooded landscape and with branch shaped handles and finials, see  A. Caròla - Perrotti, op. cit., Naples, 1986, n.64. A similar écuelle was sold by Sotheby's Milan, La Collezione Questa, March 2^st, 2005, Lot 309.