A Vezzi porcelain teabowl, circa 1725
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September 26, 11:52 AM GMT
Estimate
2,600 - 3,500 EUR
Lot Details
Description
painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilding with three flowering plant vignettes, the interior with a flower sprig to the centre below an iron-red border, Ven:a in underglaze-blue, incised 16.
7.4 cm, 2 7/8in. diameter
Sotheby’s, London, 18 November 2009, lot 420.
F. Stazzi, Porcellane della Casa Eccellentissima Vezzi, 1720-1727, Milan 1967, tav. I;
L. Melegati, Giovanni Vezzi e le sue porcellane, Milan 1998, pp. 156-57, cat. no. 52.
Melegati, op. cit., illustrates three further surviving teabowls painted in this pattern, cat. nos. 53, 54 and 56.
Related Literature
G. Morazzoni and S. Levy, Le Porcellane Italiane, Vol. I, Milan 1960, pl. 20;
A. d'Agliano, Porcellane Italiane dalla Collezione Lokar, Milan, 2013, p. 30, no. 6.
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