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A PAIR OF ITALIAN MAIOLICA PLAQUES
CASTELLI, 18TH CENTURY, WORKSHOP OF THE GRUE FAMILY
Each of cartouche shape, painted in shades of blue, green, yellow and manganese with peasants dancing, one with a couple dancing the tarantella in front of a ruin, other figures in the far distance, the other with a youth playing the bagpipes for his inebriated cohort dancing by the bank of a brook, a wine flask in his raised right hand, within manganese and yellow line borders (minor nicks to edges)--10in. (25.5cm.) wide, within gilt-wood pierced rocaille frames (2)
CASTELLI, 18TH CENTURY, WORKSHOP OF THE GRUE FAMILY
Each of cartouche shape, painted in shades of blue, green, yellow and manganese with peasants dancing, one with a couple dancing the tarantella in front of a ruin, other figures in the far distance, the other with a youth playing the bagpipes for his inebriated cohort dancing by the bank of a brook, a wine flask in his raised right hand, within manganese and yellow line borders (minor nicks to edges)--10in. (25.5cm.) wide, within gilt-wood pierced rocaille frames (2)