CIRCA 1740, GENTILE WORKSHOP

Details

A Castelli rectangular plaque
CIRCA 1740, GENTILE WORKSHOP
Painted in the typical palette with The Judgement of Solomon, the King seated on a magnificent gilt throne on raised steps, flanked by two finely dressed guards, one with a halberd, a woman kneeling at the foot of the steps and cradling her child, her left arm out-stretched to stop a soldier from drawing his sword, the court beyond them with arches supported by marble fluted columns, within a dark-brown line and ochre band rim (flaking to glaze at bottom left corner, shallow chip to top right corner, further minute chipping and flaking)
10½ in. (26.8 cm.) x 8 in. (20.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's New York, 20-21 January 2004, lot 629.

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Lot Essay

For a plaque of slightly later date in the Museo de San Martino, Naples, attributed to Bernardino Gentili The Younger and after the same print source, see Teodoro Fittipaldi, Ceramiche: Castelli, Napoli, altre fabbriche (Naples, 1992), Vol. I, p. 146, no. 283 and Vol. II, p. 171, no. 283, where it is illustrated.

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