A Castelli tondo

CIRCA 1720

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A Castelli tondo
Circa 1720
Painted by Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue with a coastal scene, the foreground with two Turkish merchants at discussion by a building, other merchants at various pursuits by the shore among boats and barrels, the middle distance with boats moored at a quayside with a tower and huts before distant mountains and a galleon on the horizon, within a brown, ochre and blue line rim (slight flaking to blue rim)
8¼ in. (21.1 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

For a similar tondo in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, see Graziella Ugolini Biscontini, Maiolica ed incisione (Milan 1992), nos. 61 and 61a.

The scene is inspired by the engravings of the Perelle brothers.

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