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A Capodimonte porcelain oval dish, circa 1750

Estimate

800 - 1,200 EUR

Lot Details

Description

of quatrefoil form, after a silver shape, probably painted by Giovanni Caselli, the centre with three figures and a boat at the edge of a river, with a bridge and steps up to a turreted building on the other side, the rim with gilt-ground arched panels with iron-red flowerheads issuing flower sprays, gilt-edged rim


38,1 cm, 15 in. wide

Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla Collection, Geneva, sold, Replica Shoes ’s, London, 14 March 2012, lot 215.

Master painter Giovanni Caselli often drew on contemporary engravings by, or after, François Boucher and Antoine Watteau for his pastoral figure subject compositions at Capodimonte. However in the case of this rare dish, a print source has not been identified. The softly painted landscape featuring a whimsical tower with a figure leaning from a balcony and pastoral figures in the foreground are typical of the painter's style and palette. For further discussion of Caselli's figure painting see A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1986, pp. 83-88.