
Estimate
800 - 1,200 EUR
Lot Details
Description
modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, each with a seated putto holding a cornucopia forming the sconce and applied with fruiting vine, the rockwork base applied with vine branches, leaves and grapes, fleur de lys marks in underglaze-blue
21 cm, 8 ¼ in. high
Anonymous sale, Replica Shoes 's, London, 21 march 2000, lot 69.
A pair of polychrome enamelled putto candlesticks of this form in the Capodimonte Museum, Naples (inv. no. 1367-1368), is illustrated by A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1986, p. 266, no. 204, where a white pair are noted, in the Ariana Museum, Zurich.
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