Lot Essay
For a full discussion of this type of decoration see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit., 1986, pp. 108-119, including no. 54 for a cup and saucer with a similar style of decoration to the border.
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CIRCA 1750-55, BLUE FLEUR DE LYS MARKS
Details
A PAIR OF CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) TEACUPS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1750-55, BLUE FLEUR DE LYS MARKS
Painted by Giovanni Caselli with still lives of fruit in landscape vignettes before shrubs, including a split pomegranate, peaches, grapes plums and apples, with elaborate gilt scroll borders entwined with coloured flower-sprays (very minor wear to gilding, one saucer with glazed rim chip from time of manufacture) (2)
CIRCA 1750-55, BLUE FLEUR DE LYS MARKS
Painted by Giovanni Caselli with still lives of fruit in landscape vignettes before shrubs, including a split pomegranate, peaches, grapes plums and apples, with elaborate gilt scroll borders entwined with coloured flower-sprays (very minor wear to gilding, one saucer with glazed rim chip from time of manufacture) (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 20th November 1970, lot 463 (for the cup and saucer with the split pomegranate illustrated here on the right)
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, col. pl. XIX [I, 5] for the example with the split pomegranate.
Exhibited
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987.
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Dominic Simpson
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