A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) OVAL DISH, the centre painted with a named view inscribed on the reverse in red script Tempiel di Diana a Baja within a circular gilt line scroll cartouche, the border with pendant cornflowers and gilt foliage between gilt line rims and within a chocolate line rim, crowned N mark in blue and indistinctly incised letters, circa 1795

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A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) OVAL DISH, the centre painted with a named view inscribed on the reverse in red script Tempiel di Diana a Baja within a circular gilt line scroll cartouche, the border with pendant cornflowers and gilt foliage between gilt line rims and within a chocolate line rim, crowned N mark in blue and indistinctly incised letters, circa 1795
13½in. (33.5cm.) wide

cf Angela Carola Perrotti

For other pieces from a 'fiordalisi' service See Angela Carola Perrotti, La Porcellana della Real Fabbrica Ferdinandes, Tav. XCV., no 101 for an oval dish and Tav. CXX., no. 132 for a plate. See also the same author's Le Porcellane dei Borboni di Napoli, nos. 400-402. A part service of thei pattern formally in the collectin of Eva, Countess of Rosebery, sold in our King Street Rooms, 30 November 1981, lots 59-70; also a pair of plates in our Rome Rooms, 9 May 1990, lot 256A

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