AN ITALIAN BISCUIT PORCELAIN RELIEF PLAQUE
NAPLES, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Depicting Giovanni Pontanus (1426-1503) in profile and engraved 'IOH. IOVIANUS PONTANUS/EX SYNCHRONO MARMORE/APUD. III. PRAESUL. FRAN. CARACCIOLUM VIRUM AMICISS', cracked
19 x 13½ in. (48.5 x 34 cm.) overall
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Giovanni Pontanus (1426-1503) was an Italian humanist and poet best remembered for his emotive and elegiac compositions in Latin. Both his prose and poems were published by the Venetian house of Aldus Manutius.