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ULISSE CANTAGALLI, FLORENCE, ITALY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF POTTERY CANDLESTICKS IN THE IZNIK 'DAMASCUS' STYLE
ULISSE CANTAGALLI, FLORENCE, ITALY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each of typical form, the decoration in white reserved against cobalt blue ground, painted in turquoise-blue and aubergine with large tulips and carnation sprays interspersed with saz leaves, the flat wide shoulders and flanged straight stem with bulbous finial with further similar decoration, the flange with pseudo 'rock-and-wave' pattern, the base with maker's mark and marked ITALIA
10 ¾in. (27.3cm.) high
ULISSE CANTAGALLI, FLORENCE, ITALY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each of typical form, the decoration in white reserved against cobalt blue ground, painted in turquoise-blue and aubergine with large tulips and carnation sprays interspersed with saz leaves, the flat wide shoulders and flanged straight stem with bulbous finial with further similar decoration, the flange with pseudo 'rock-and-wave' pattern, the base with maker's mark and marked ITALIA
10 ¾in. (27.3cm.) high