Lot Essay
The subject is probably the story of Judith and Holofernes, which also occurs on the square box in the Floridiana illustrated by Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., p. 532, no. 487.
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CIRCA 1755, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
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A CAPODIMONTE GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1755, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
Painted in the manner of Giovanni Caselli with a continuous frieze of travellers and harvesters in a landscape, the underside with a figure holding a basket of fruit kneeling before a maiden, the cover with merchants in conversation at a quayside and two women before an encampment outside a town wall, the hinged mount with a three-colour thumbpiece formed as flowers issuing husks (mounts re-attached to box, thumbpiece with small repair)
3¼ in. (8 cm.) wide overall
CIRCA 1755, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
Painted in the manner of Giovanni Caselli with a continuous frieze of travellers and harvesters in a landscape, the underside with a figure holding a basket of fruit kneeling before a maiden, the cover with merchants in conversation at a quayside and two women before an encampment outside a town wall, the hinged mount with a three-colour thumbpiece formed as flowers issuing husks (mounts re-attached to box, thumbpiece with small repair)
3¼ in. (8 cm.) wide overall
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 20th November 1970, lot 474
C.W. Harris Collection, Isle of Man.
C.W. Harris Collection, Isle of Man.
Literature
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine (Fribourg, 1985), p. 533, no. 488.
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