TWO PARIS NAPLES-DECORATED LARGE CABINET CUPS AND SAUCERS

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TWO PARIS NAPLES-DECORATED LARGE CABINET CUPS AND SAUCERS
19TH CENTURY, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS, SIGNED LANDOLFI

With everted gilt mouths, finely painted with a circular portraits of Giambattista della Porta and Alessandro Tassoni, named on the undersides, within wide gilt surrounds and reserved on the white ground elaborately gilt with slightly variant foliate scrolls
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) diam., the saucers
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Lot Essay

Giambattista della Porta (1541-1615) - Italian physicist
Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635) - Italian poet/critic