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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) WHITE BEAKER, TEABOWL AND SAUCER, AND A COFFEE-CUP
Lot 580

A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) WHITE BEAKER, TEABOWL AND SAUCER, AND A COFFEE-CUP

CIRCA 1750, BLUE FLEUR DE LYS MARKS

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 1,375

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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) WHITE BEAKER, TEABOWL AND SAUCER, AND A COFFEE-CUP
CIRCA 1750, BLUE FLEUR DE LYS MARKS
The beaker, teabowl and saucer each applied with three sprays of moulded flowering prunus branches, the coffee-cup with three garden flowers and branch handle (chip to footrim of beaker, hairline crack to footrim of teabowl, small chips to rim of saucer, coffee-cup handle restuck) (4)

Specialist note

For a coffee-pot applied with moulded prunus branches see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, 'Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806', Exhibition Catalogue, Naples, 1987, p. 71, no. 17, where the author discusses the influence of Chinese blanc de chine porcelain on the major European factories in the first half of the eighteenth century.