Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Lot 66 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1750, GILT FLEUR DE LYS MARKS

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 5,000

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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1750, GILT FLEUR DE LYS MARKS
Probably painted by Giovanni Caselli, the cup with a continuous battle scene with classical warriors on horseback and wielding lances and swords, the saucer with two soldiers in 18th century dress standing at rest with a horse before a water fountain and obelisk, a hilltop town in the distance, the rim with a gilt palmette, flowerhead and scrollwork border (teabowl with small restored rim chips and chip to footrim, saucer with small firing crack to rim)

The Stanniforth Collection (according to paper label attached to the base of the saucer)
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 20 November 1970, lot 467.

Specialist note

See A. Caròla-Perrotti, Ibid., p. 127, no. 70 where the author compares the teabowl and saucer to a service in the Victoria and Albert Museum which is painted with classical soldiers on each of the pieces (rather than soldiers in 18th century dress, as in the case of the saucer in the present lot) and with very similar gilt borders. A coffee-pot and cover and teapot and cover from the service in the Victoria and Albert Museum service are illustrated by Arthur Lane, Italian Porcelain, London, 1954, pl. 66 and 67 c.