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A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) WHITE FIGURE OF A GENTLEMAN
Lot 75

A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) WHITE FIGURE OF A GENTLEMAN

CIRCA 1790-1800, BLUE N MARK

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 1,875

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A NAPLES (REAL FABBRICA FERDINANDEA) WHITE FIGURE OF A GENTLEMAN
CIRCA 1790-1800, BLUE N MARK
Modelled standing wearing contemporary dress, holding a cloth bag in his right hand and his hat in his left hand, on a circular rockwork base (firing crack through left wrist)
6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a coloured example of this figure, together with his female companion see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Exhibition Catalogue, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987, Naples, 1986, col. pl. LXXXVII.