CIRCA 1735, PROBABLY FERDINANDO MARIA CAMPANI

Details

A Siena plate
Circa 1735, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with three Muses attending to Pegasus in a pool, before distant buildings and mountains, within a manganese line and ochre rim (crack from rim at 1 o'clock, rim chip at 9 o'clock, partially repaired rim chip at 4 o'clock, slight flaking to rim)
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Schloß Thallwitz (reverse with red inventory number Th.6.)

Literature

Steffen Berg, op. cit. (January 1996), pl. 22.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The graphic source above is Bartoli, op. cit., (Rome 1680), pl. XX. (Reproduced courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library, London).

For another plate with the same subject with a differing landscape interpretation, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (London, 1940), Vol. II, pl. 190 as well as Pelizzoni/Zanchi op. cit., (Florence, 1982), pl. 124.

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