A CASTELLI MAIOLICA RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

EARLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GENTILI WORKSHOP

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A CASTELLI MAIOLICA RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GENTILI WORKSHOP
Painted with Venus seated in her chariot drawn by two hippocampi, with Neptune standing beside her holding his trident aloft, within an ochre and manganese-lined rim (extended firing crack and riveted repair to reverse with some filling near lower edge, minor rim chipping)
10 in. x 7 5/8 in. (25.4 cm. x 19.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Piasa, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 4 June 2010, lot 91.

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Lot Essay

For a plaque, painted in a similar hand and attributed to Carmine Gentili, see Giovanni Tavano and Oscar Buonamano (ed.), Maiolica di Castelli nella Collezione Acerbo, Pescara, 2001, p. 81, no. OA-544, and p. 158 nos. OA-533-535, for other related examples attributed to Giacomo Gentili il vecchio and to the Gentili workshop.

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