Footnotes

• The decoration on this cup and saucer may find its origins in the many drawings and engravings made in preparation for the Servizio delle Vestiture del Regno, produced at the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea around 1785. The decoration scheme on the service is largely based on gouaches by two artists, Saverio Della Gatta and Alessandro D'Anna, and later Stefano Santucci, who were hired by Domenico Venuti to travel country and make a record of all the regional costumes of the Kingdom. Their gouaches were used widely at the factory. An important source for the factory was also the publication in 1773 of the Raccolta di varii Vestimenti ed Arti del Regno di Napoli by the artist Pietro Fabris.
  
  For further reading on the subject of the popularity in the 18th century of the depiction of Lazzaroni or street dwellers and other lower classes see Calaresu, 2007.

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Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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