Lot Essay
The graphic source above is Bartoli, op. cit. (Rome 1680), pl. V. (Reproduced courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library, London).
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CIRCA 1745, PROBABLY FERDINANDO MARIA CAMPANI
Details
A Siena plate
Circa 1745, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with Erato seated on a rocky outcrop with a lyre, Ovid, Mercury and Perilla standing nearby, among trees and bushes before a plain and distant mountains, within a manganese line and ochre rim (crack from rim at 1 o'clock to centre with small associated loss, slight flaking to rim)
9 7/8 in. (25.2 cm.) diam.
Circa 1745, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with Erato seated on a rocky outcrop with a lyre, Ovid, Mercury and Perilla standing nearby, among trees and bushes before a plain and distant mountains, within a manganese line and ochre rim (crack from rim at 1 o'clock to centre with small associated loss, slight flaking to rim)
9 7/8 in. (25.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Schloß Thallwitz (reverse with red inventory number Th.21.)
Literature
Steffen Berg, op. cit. (January 1996), pl. 8.
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