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A Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinadea, saucer decorated in Attic style, circa 1785 image 1
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Lot 15

A Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinadea, saucer decorated in Attic style, circa 1785

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£600 - £800

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A Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinadea, saucer decorated in Attic style, circa 1785

With a terracotta ground and deep brown rim with reserved foliate border enclosing a scene of two seated people described on the reverse of the saucer in red script: Filomena che congesti delle mani narra a Progone sua sorella in vera gognoso attendaro di Teseo marito di quela di averla violata, e dopo tagliatale la lingua sono ambe ad un meda (sic) vestito e vittata perché sotto tale abbigliamento nella Triete riche di P...cco pote' Progne introdur di nascosto sue stanze la violata sorell 13.2cm diam., N in underglaze blue, crowned N in red enamel (small restuck chip to edge)

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The depiction on the saucer relates to the story of Philomena and Thereus. Thereus forced himself upon Philomena, his wife's sister. In revenge, his wife Procne killed their son and served his flesh his father. When Thereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the two sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Thereus became a hoopoe; Procne became the swallow whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of her child; Philomela became the nightingale.

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