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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) FIGURAL SALT
Lot 593

A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) FIGURAL SALT

CIRCA 1750, IMPRESSED FLEUR DE LYS MARK

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 6,250

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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) FIGURAL SALT
CIRCA 1750, IMPRESSED FLEUR DE LYS MARK
Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci as a standing lady wearing a blue-edged white tunic and red sash, puce-edged white skirt, yellow hat with a gilt ribbon-tie and yellow shoes, her left arm raised and her right hand holding a shell and scroll-moulded cornucopia at her side, heightened in puce and edged in gilding, on a rockwork base (left hand, hat, edge of tunic and cornucopia restored)
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For an illustration of the model, and her companion see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Exhibition Catalogue, 'Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806', Naples, 1987, pp. 207-208, pl. 153 b (the lady) and 153 a (her companion), and p. 208 where the author discusses Gricci's distinctive interpretation of the figural salt in comparison to those already being made at Meissen around the 1740s.