A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) GROUP OF A COUPLE WITH A DOG

CIRCA 1755-59, INCUSO FLEUR DE LYS MARK

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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) GROUP OF A COUPLE WITH A DOG
CIRCA 1755-59, INCUSO FLEUR DE LYS MARK
Modelled by Guiseppe Gricci, with a lady standing and holding a dog in her apron, wearing a gilt-edged hat, white bodice with gilt bows at the shoulders and a puce, green and yellow patterned skirt, her companion seated next to her offering food to her dog and wearing a blue-edged jacket, white breeches and black shoes, on a grassy mound before a tree-stump (restoration to his right arm, ankles and feet, her hat and skirt and through base, crack to his jacket)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 5th April 1982, lot 60.

Literature

Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Exhibition Catalogue, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987, Naples, 1986, no. 113, col. pl. XXXVI [II, 2].

Exhibited

Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987, no. 113.

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Lot Essay

The heads of the figures on this group are much more in proportion to the figures than they are on the smaller scale Capodimonte groups.

For another example of this model in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, see Francesco Stazzi, l'Arte della Ceramica Capodimonte, Milan, 1972, p. 286, no. 90. A further example was sold in these Rooms on 2nd July 1984, lot 46.

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