Two Naples Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea porcelain small busts, circa 1790-1800

The moor:

Maurizio Brandi, Naples;

Roberto Procida Mirabelli di Lauro Collection, Naples, no. 64, acquired from the above in 1965;

Bonhams, London, 6 July 2010, lot 68.

The man:

Goffredo and Erica Manfredi Collection, Rome;

Wannenes, Genoa, 14-15 May 2013, lot 866.

The moor:

Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987, no. 93.

The moor:

A. Caròla-Perrotti, La Porcellana della Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea (1771-1806), Naples, 1978, plate CCXL, no. 268;

A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1986, p. 535, no. 512.

During the 1790s the factory produced various small bust models depicting peasants, Turks and fashionable men and women. Four busts of Turks, two women and two men, are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, accession nos. C.7-1910, C.8-1910, C.9-1910 and C.10-1910.