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A Cozzi porcelain teapot and cover, circa 1770-80

Estimate

800 - 1,200 EUR

Lot Details

Description

of globular form, with scroll handle and branch-moulded spout, decorated 'a feston e cadena' with purple-edged lobed compartments and iron-red and gilt foliate sprigs, the cover with flower finial, anchor mark in iron-red enamel


10 cm, 4 in. high

This delicate Asian-inspired pattern was one of the Cozzi factory's most successful and was in use for the duration of the factory's existence. For further discussion of this type of decoration, referred to in the Cozzi inventories as 'a feston e cadena' (and sometimes 'Cattena, e feston' and vice versa) and produced in multiple colour combinations, see M. Ansaldi and A. Craievich, Geminiano Cozzi e le sue porcellane, exhibition catalogue, Venice, 2016, pp. 90-97, and cat. no. 54 for a sugar bowl and cover with the same colour palette of purple and iron-red.