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    Italian Ceramic Art 1400-1900

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    22 April 2008

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    • A DOCCIA PLATE
    Lot 121 | VARIOUS PROPERTIES Read more

    A DOCCIA PLATE

    CIRCA 1770, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK, THE DECORATION PROBABLY CIRCA 1790 AND POSSIBLY NAPLES

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    GBP 1,750

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    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,500

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    A DOCCIA PLATE
    CIRCA 1770, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK, THE DECORATION PROBABLY CIRCA 1790 AND POSSIBLY NAPLES
    The body covered with a white tin glaze, the centre painted with figures in Neopolitan regional costumes, with a fishmonger in conical iron-red hat, purple jacket and striped trousers offering fish to a lady in a pink dress seated on a wall, in a coastal landscape with a distant town, within a circular gilt line and garland roundel, the well edged with a gilt line, the border with five gilt sprigs, gilt band rim (slight scratches to centre, slight flaking to gilt rim)
    10¼ in. (26.5 cm.) diam.

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    Lot Essay

    Cf. Angela Caròla-Perrotti, et al., Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (Naples, 1986), pl. LXXIII for a coffee-pot with a similar scene.

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