A Capodimonte jar and cover, later decorated
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A Capodimonte or Buen Retiro jar and cover, circa 1760, later decorated
Finely stippled in a soft palette embellished with gilding with a continuous landscape scene depicting a female figure with a bow, a child, three women and two others with a hound, the cover depicting two elegant couples in a continuous landscape, gilt-edged rims and gilt finial, 18.5cm high, fleur-de-lys mark in blue (2)
Estimate:
£2,000 - 3,000
€2,300 - 3,500
US$ 3,000 - 4,500

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 24 May 1966, lot 102

    Literature:
    Francesco Stazzi, Capodimonte (1972), p. 244, fig. 38

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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