A PAIR OF CASTELLI MAIOLICA ARMORIAL PLATES
A PAIR OF CASTELLI MAIOLICA ARMORIAL PLATES

CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF NICOLA CAPPELLETTI

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A PAIR OF CASTELLI MAIOLICA ARMORIAL PLATES
CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF NICOLA CAPPELLETTI
One painted with a standing boy, the other with a reclining musician, each in a wooded landscape with classical ruins below a coat-of-arms supported by two putti (one with hairline crack to rim and glaze starcrack to reverse)
9 in. (22.2 cm.) diam.
Exhibited
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (according to the paper labels attached to the reverse of both).

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For a series of related plates attributed to Nicola Cappelletti, painted with similar landscapes featuring a rising sun and classical ruins, see Vincenzo de Pompeis and Andrea Antico et al., Maioliche di Castelli nella Collezione Acerbo in Loreto Aprutino Pescara, Pescara, 2001, pp. 136-138, nos. 126-145.

Another plate from the same armorial service was sold in these Rooms on 2 November 1998, lot 203, and two further examples were sold by Sotheby's in London on 13 March 1989, lot 248 and on 2 November 1998, lot 203.

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