Lot Essay
Prospero Lambertini was pope from 1740-58. A portrait of him by Pompeo Batoni is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and he also possessed a Meissen service bearing his Arms
ITALIAN PORCELAIN
A DOCCIA WHITE OVAL PORTRAIT PLAQUE moulded in relief with a half length portrait of Prospero Lambertini, POpe Benedict XIV in half profile to the left, seated below a canopy hung with drapery and tassels (slight restoration to canopy and tips of two fingers on his right hand), mounted on velvet in a contemporary gilt-wood frame, circa 1745
Details
A DOCCIA WHITE OVAL PORTRAIT PLAQUE moulded in relief with a half length portrait of Prospero Lambertini, POpe Benedict XIV in half profile to the left, seated below a canopy hung with drapery and tassels (slight restoration to canopy and tips of two fingers on his right hand), mounted on velvet in a contemporary gilt-wood frame, circa 1745
the plaque 15cm. high
the plaque 15cm. high
Provenance
Roberto Bondi Collection
Literature
A. Mottola Molfino, L'Arte della Porcellana in Italia, fig. 461