Lot Essay
Cf. similar examples were sold in the Rooms, 28 March 1983, lot 216 and 29 June 1987, lot 64
CIRCA 1710
Details
A Castelli campana-shaped vase and domed cover
Circa 1710
Painted in the Grue workshop with figures dining al fresco and seated at a table, with further figures including a man holding a cup and a woman with a basket of fruit and a further woman holding a fan beside an upturned barrel beneath a ruined arch in an extensive wooded landscape with figures and a church in the distance, the swelling lower part with putti supporting escutcheons with winged masks, swags of laurel and flowers, the circular spreading foot and cover decorated with scantily draped figures and putti with bouquets and garlands of flowers between band rims (the vase extensively damaged and repaired and with small pieces lacking, the cover with rim chip and associated cracks)
20in. (51cm.) high
Circa 1710
Painted in the Grue workshop with figures dining al fresco and seated at a table, with further figures including a man holding a cup and a woman with a basket of fruit and a further woman holding a fan beside an upturned barrel beneath a ruined arch in an extensive wooded landscape with figures and a church in the distance, the swelling lower part with putti supporting escutcheons with winged masks, swags of laurel and flowers, the circular spreading foot and cover decorated with scantily draped figures and putti with bouquets and garlands of flowers between band rims (the vase extensively damaged and repaired and with small pieces lacking, the cover with rim chip and associated cracks)
20in. (51cm.) high