A CAPODIMONTE TWO-HANDLED WINE-COOLER
Lot 69

A CAPODIMONTE TWO-HANDLED WINE-COOLER

CIRCA 1755

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 20,000

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A CAPODIMONTE TWO-HANDLED WINE-COOLER
CIRCA 1755
Probably modelled by Guiseppe Gricci, of ogee form on a spreading circular base and with a slightly flared scroll-moulded rim, the body moulded with overlapping vertical straps above wave moulding, the stepped foot tied with blue bands, the branch handles and rim entwined with vine and black and white grapes, the rim moulded above the handles with rococo scroll cartouches (restoration to both handles, chipping and restoration to some leaves and fruit, two extended firing cracks to rim)
11 in. (28 cm.) high

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 24 March 1969, lot 159.

Specialist note

A similar example is in the Hispanic Society of America, New York, see Oreste Ferrari, Porcellane del Settecento, Milan, 1966, p. 131 and Alice Wilson Frothingham, Capodimonte and Buen Retiro Porcelains, Period of Charles III, New York, 1955, fig. 18. A white example on a different base was sold in these Rooms on 20 October 1975, lot 33.