A PAIR OF CASTELLI CIRCULAR PLAQUES

SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CASTELLI CIRCULAR PLAQUES
SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Probably painted in the Grue workshop, each with figures walking by overgrown classical ruins, one with a gnarled tree in the foreground to the right, the other with a river and distant town beyond, within a manganese line and yellow band border to the rim (the first with chip to rim, the second with small chip to rim), in circular giltwood frames
The plaques 9½ in. (23.5 cm.) diam. (2)

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For an example of a plaque painted in a very similar style, and attributed to the workshop of Anastasio Grue, see Vincenzo de Pompeis, Maioliche di Castelli nella Collezione Acerbo in Loreto Aprutino Pescara, Pescara, 2001, p. 97, OA-1.

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