Lot 112
112
A Siena plate
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A Siena plate

CIRCA 1745, PROBABLY FERDINANDO MARIA CAMPANI

Details
A Siena plate
Circa 1745, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with a soul being presented before Pluto and Proserpina by Mercury in a wooded landscape with buildings and distant mountains, within a manganese line and ochre rim (chip to rim at 9 o'clock, very slight flaking to rim)
9¾ in. (24.9 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Schloß Thallwitz (reverse with red inventory number Th.13.)
Literature
Steffen Berg, op. cit. (January 1996), pl. 12.
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Lot Essay

The graphic source above is after Pietro Bartoli's engraving, pl. VIII from 'Le Pitture antichi del Sepolchro de Nasonii nella via Flaminia' (published by Giovanni Petro Belloni, Rome, 1680). (Reproduced courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library, London).

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