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Lot 27

A very rare Naples, Migliuolo-Giustiniani factory, creamware ecuelle, cover and stand, early 19th century

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A very rare Naples, Migliuolo-Giustiniani factory, creamware ecuelle, cover and stand, early 19th century

Finely painted with scenes depicting Angelica and Medoro (on the stand), and Juno, Jupiter, Neptune and Venus in triumph on the ecuelle and cover, with borders of purple foliage interspersed with gilt flowers and a band of entwined purple foliage and gilt fruiting vines between blue-ground bands with gilt dots to the rims, the ecuelle with gilt rings to the sides, the stand: 24.2cm diam.; the ecuelle and cover: 14.5cm high, the stand impressed 'F.M.G/ N.' (haircrack to rim of stand) (3)

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Literature:
Guido Donatone, La terraglia napoletana (1782-1860) (1991), pl. 7c-e

The scene of Angelica and Medoro on the stand is taken from the print by Giovanni Folo or Raphael Morghen after Teodoro Matteini, from the end of the 18th century.

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