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A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLI
Lot 455

A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLI

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAPLES

Closed8 March 2011

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GBP 937

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A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLI
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAPLES
Each of waisted form, painted in blue with a portrait of a boy or girl peasant within a rocaille frame issuing flowers
6¼ in. (25.9 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

See Guido Donatone, La Maiolica Napoletana Del Settecento, 1980, plate 92, for a similar example which he attributes to Saverio Grue before he joined the Reale Fabbrica di porcellana in Naples in 1772.