LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A Castelli armorial charger
LATE 17TH CENTURY
Painted by Francesco Grue, the centre with 'Cleopatra kneeling before the Emperor Marcantonio' in a columned court with priests and soldiers holding spears, the border with military trophies centred at the top with a coat of arms within a scrolling strapwork escutcheon surmounted by a helmet and mantling, within an ochre and brown ovolo ornament rim (rim with areas of wear and flaking to glaze, underside with fine crack to border from rim at 11 o'clock, some very slight scratches to centre)
Approximately 16 1/8 in. (41.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

See Felix Herbet, Les Graveurs de l' Ecole de Fontainebleau, Vol. V, no. 38, for the engraved source from which the subject is directly derived. A dish with the same subject, but a different border, was sold in these Rooms on 25th February 1991, lot 39. A dish in the Louvre with a very similar border with trophies, but without a coat of arms and painted with a central scene of Alexander The Great covering Darius's body, is illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux (Paris, 1974), p. 469, no. 1379.

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