A GROUP OF SEVEN FIGURES

NAPLES, MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A GROUP OF SEVEN FIGURES
Naples, Mid-18th Century and Later
Comprising a gesturing Moor in green silk costume, the 'Angry Man' in a purple velvet jacket, a turbaned Oriental in green and mustard silk costume, a village woman with a string of beaded pearls, a shop keeper, a villager in a cream silk jacket and green cotton pants, and a courtesan with red coral beaded necklace and embroidered cream silk robes, on later wooden bases
12¼in. (31cm.) to 13½in. (34.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

The figure of a townsman can be associated with the large figure of a townsman in blue and red silk costume in lot (mss.20), which together relate to one with similiar pose, dress and facial type from the 19th Century sold Christie's Milan, 25 November 1999, lot 292. Likewise, the figure of the merchant relates, along with the figure of a townsman in lot (mss 13), to other figures by Lorenzo Mosca and his circle. While the figure of the 'Angry Man' is difficult to attribute at this point, caricatures of this type recure often in other presepe, as in the one sold Semenzato, Rome, 1 December 1999, lot 214, that was attributed to Francesco Celebrano (1729-1814).

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