A CAPODIMONTE COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER stippled in the manner of Giovanni Caselli or Giacomo Nani with still lives of fruit resting on grassy mounds among foliage, the rims with bands of gilt scrollwork and coloured flowers, the cup with shaped gilt scroll handle (hair crack to saucer at 4 o'clock, large chip to one side of rim of cup about 3.5cm. long and a smaller chip, slight restoration and chip to footrim of cup), blue fleur-de-lys mark to saucer and indistinct mark to cup, circa 1750

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A CAPODIMONTE COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER stippled in the manner of Giovanni Caselli or Giacomo Nani with still lives of fruit resting on grassy mounds among foliage, the rims with bands of gilt scrollwork and coloured flowers, the cup with shaped gilt scroll handle (hair crack to saucer at 4 o'clock, large chip to one side of rim of cup about 3.5cm. long and a smaller chip, slight restoration and chip to footrim of cup), blue fleur-de-lys mark to saucer and indistinct mark to cup, circa 1750

Lot Essay

Two teacups and saucers with similar decoration including the borders are illustrated by Angela Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit., col. pl. XIX and p. 112, no. 54; see also a similar example sold in these Rooms on 30 June 1986, lot 169

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