CIRCA 1765

Details

A PAIR OF MILAN (CLERICI) SHAPED FAIENCE PLATES
CIRCA 1765
Each painted with a Commedia dell'Arte figure, one with Pulchinello eating spagetti and holding a large fork, the other with Columbine in Harlequine dress holding a baton, on grassy terraces between trees and among birds and insects in flight, brown line rims (each with slight chip to rim, minor glaze flaking to rims)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

With G. & R. Bacchi Antichità, Milan, 1935.
With Caviglia Antiquario, Maroggia, Switzerland, from whom they were acquired on 29 March 2004.

Literature

Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 196-197.

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Lot Essay

The present examples were manufactured in the workshop of Felice Clerici at Ospedaletto di Sant'Ambrogio. For an example of the same type see Guido Gregorietti, Maioliche Di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Exhibition Catalogue, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1964, no. 305.

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