A pair of Capodimonte (Carlo III) coffee-cups and saucers

CIRCA 1750, BLUE FLEUR-DE-LYS MARKS

细节

A pair of Capodimonte (Carlo III) coffee-cups and saucers
Circa 1750, blue fleur-de-lys marks
The cups of flared deep form and with moulded angular gilt scroll handles, painted by Giovanni Caselli in a stippled pale palette with equestrian figures and warriors skirmishing within richly gilt cartouche-shaped scroll panels within gilt pendant scroll and foliage borders (some very slight rubbing to handle and gilt footrim of one cup) (2)

出版

G. Morazzoni, Il Settecento Italiano (1932), vol. II, pl. CCLXXXVII.

拍品专文

For comparable decoration by Caselli see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit. (1986), p. 137, pl. XXIV. Although della Torre is well known as a painter of 'battaglie', the finest examples of battle painting are in fact by Caselli.