A Naples (Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea) porcelain plate, circa 1800

painted with the subject of the Rape of Hippodamia, the title above in iron-red 'Teseo. e Piritoo, vincono il Centauro euritio, che aveva rapita Ippodamia. Pittura antica.', reserved with a gilded-dotted band at the well, the orange-ground rim with gilded foliate scrollwork cartouches alternating with medallions simulating cameos from antiquity, gilt-edged rims, impressed crowned N mark and incised 6 to inside edge of footrim,

In overall good appearance and condition. Very faint and minor scattered surface scratching. The footrim with some minor chips associated with manufacture which have been gilded over.
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The scene is after the work by the Polish painter Franciszek Smugliewicz (1745-1807), who worked in Rome between 1763 and 1785. He was commissioned to portray the recently re-excavated site under the Esquiline hill (baths of Titus) including fresco of the Rape of Hippodamia. Ludovico Mirri published a book, ‘Vestigia delle terme di Tito e le loro interne pitture’, with prints by Marco Carloni after Smugliewicz.