A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) OVAL TWO-HANDLED SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE 'FIORDALISI' SERVICE

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A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) OVAL TWO-HANDLED SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE 'FIORDALISI' SERVICE
Circa 1790

With moulded gilt scroll and divided strapwork handles and on four gilt scroll and hoof feet, painted with named views within rectangular gilt line and scroll cartouches, the tureen with Veduta del Templo di Diana e Castelli di Baja and Veduta di Pozzuoli presa dal Monte Nuovo, the cover with Veduta della Granguardia al largo del Castello and Veduta dell Immacolatella al Molo within gilt fan-shaped cartouches within borders of pendant blue cornflowers with gilt foliage between gilt line and dentil bands, the cover with a putto seated on rockwork with a iron-red and gilt bearded male mask (half of one handle and one foot restored replacements, another foot partially restored, the two other feet and handle with minor cracks, short crack to rim of tureen and flaking to black enamel of top rim, the finial to the cover with restoration to putto's lower body, right arm a restored replacement and with hand lacking, restored chip to beard, some very minor flaking to black enamel rim, some minute staining to edge of cover), the base with crowned N mark in blue and incised IXT
14 3/4in. (37.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The present topographical tureen and cover formed part of the so-called 'Fiordalisi' service produced in the 1790's at the same time as the similar 'dell'Oca' service, also with named Neapolitan views, was made for Ferdinand IV. The tureen from that service is of similar form to the present example apart from the finial, see the example sold in these Rooms on 3 June 1974, lot 166. The drawing for the finial on the present example is illustrated by Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane Dei Borbone Di Napoli Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, p. 443.

A series of dishes and plates from this service were sold in these Rooms on 30 November 1981, lots 59-70; see also Angela Caròla-Perrotti, ibid., pp. 462/3, nos. 400-401 for further examples.

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