Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 153
A Capodimonte ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1755-59
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Raphael Machiels
Associate Specialist
A Capodimonte ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1755-59
Finely painted in polychrome enamels heightened in gilding with elaborate Chinoiserie scenes with figures engaged in various pursuits amidst architectural features and flowering shrubs and foliage, surrounded by scattered flower sprays, gilt line borders to the rims, the stand 22cm diam, the ecuelle and cover 12.2cm high, fleur-de-lys marks in underglaze-blue (3)
Footnotes
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 13 July 1976, lot 95;
The Art of the Italian Potter, Maiolica and Porcelain from a Private Collection, Christie's London, 24 May 2011, lot 61
With E & H Manners, 2011
Literature
Caròla-Perrotti, Angela, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, 1986, p.74, fig.22a
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022 p.481
The decoration, featuring Chinoiserie scenes rendered in a distinctly European manner, is an unusual choice for Capodimonte. However, the treatment of the floral and foliate elements aligns more closely with the manufactory's characteristic style. Angela Caròla-Perrotti observes that such motifs were likely derived from prints and drawings — possibly originating in Venice or France — that were incorporated into the manufactory's design albums (cf. figs. 21b and 22b). Comparable vignettes and depictions of insects appear in etchings based on the drawings of Jean Pillement. For a related example, see A. Caròla-Perrotti, 1986, p. 73, fig. 21a, illustrating a pair of saucers adorned with similar Chinoiserie scenes.
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