Lot Essay
Cf. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Catalogue of the Exhibition Maioliche de Lodi, Milano e Pavia, 1964, figs. 228 and 229
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A MILAN PART DINNER-SERVICE
Circa 1770, Felice Clerici's factory
Decorated a piccolo fuoco in a famille rose style with the 'pino d'oro' pattern of double entwined gilt pines within shaped borders of peonies on a scroll-ground, comprising:
A pair of ice-pails and covers (slight crack to one cover around finial)
Two shaped oval soup-tureens, covers and stands
A large oval serving-dish
Three sauce-tureens and covers, and two stands (one sauce-tureen cracked)
Four soup-plates
Four dinner-plates
(slight chips, some wear to enamels), various painter's marks
Circa 1770, Felice Clerici's factory
Decorated a piccolo fuoco in a famille rose style with the 'pino d'oro' pattern of double entwined gilt pines within shaped borders of peonies on a scroll-ground, comprising:
A pair of ice-pails and covers (slight crack to one cover around finial)
Two shaped oval soup-tureens, covers and stands
A large oval serving-dish
Three sauce-tureens and covers, and two stands (one sauce-tureen cracked)
Four soup-plates
Four dinner-plates
(slight chips, some wear to enamels), various painter's marks