A MILAN BLUE-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER painted with a man walking in a landscape below an exotic bird in flight and a seated figure in an elegant headdress within gilt and iron-red line panels, the ground enriched with gilt flowers (base of cup broken and repaired, rim chips to saucer, slight glaze flakes to rim of cup), the cup inscribed in manganese Milano/4/FC, F. Clerici's factory, circa 1770
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A MILAN BLUE-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER painted with a man walking in a landscape below an exotic bird in flight and a seated figure in an elegant headdress within gilt and iron-red line panels, the ground enriched with gilt flowers (base of cup broken and repaired, rim chips to saucer, slight glaze flakes to rim of cup), the cup inscribed in manganese Milano/4/FC, F. Clerici's factory, circa 1770
Lot Essay
Cf. Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, pp. 290-301