A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) COFFEE-POT AND A COVER AND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER

CIRCA 1790-1800

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A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) COFFEE-POT AND A COVER AND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
CIRCA 1790-1800
The coffee-pot moulded with a bearded satyr mask spout and applied with a gilt serpent handle, painted with a dancing maiden within a square gilt frame with a foliate motif to each corner within gilt flower and leaf borders below a brown-line rim, the cylindrical sugar-bowl on three paw feet, decorated with three gilt frames each enclosing a dancing nymph between similar borders (firing crack to base of coffee-pot, sugar-bowl with crack to one foot and flat chip to rim of cover, slight wear to gilding)
The coffee-pot 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 5 October 1987, lots 70 and 71.

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Lot Essay

The three dancing figures on the sugar-bowl are inspired by three of fifteen wall painting fragments discovered at the Villa di Cicerone in Pompeii, and now in the Archaeological Museum, Naples. For an illustration of all fifteen fragments see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Exhibition Catalogue, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987, Naples, 1986, p. 335, no. 262 a-c, where she discusses their influence on the decorative schemes of neoclassical taste in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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