Estimate
€ 600 - 700
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€ 645
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cup height 5.8 cm; saucer height 13.7 cm
Cylindrical cup with shaped handle, round saucer with high brim.
White porcelain with gold borders, decorated in polychrome with a deer hunting scene on the saucer and two birds in a pond in the cup. Marked "N crowned in blue" with a paper label indicating Lukacs-Donath provenance, Antichità Roma, under the base.
Cylindrical cup with shaped handle, round saucer with high brim.
White porcelain with gold borders, decorated in polychrome with a deer hunting scene on the saucer and two birds in a pond in the cup. Marked "N crowned in blue" with a paper label indicating Lukacs-Donath provenance, Antichità Roma, under the base.
Provenance
Sotheby's, Milan, Important Porcelains and Majolica by Giampaolo Lukacs, 18 April 2007, lot 260.
Specialist Notes
The decoration of this lot is inspired by the ancient Roman wall paintings found during excavations in Pompeii and Herculaneum starting in the first half of the 18th century.
Regarding the cup, for a similar ornithological decoration, see Angela Caròla-Perrotti (ed.), Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli. Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806 , exhibition catalogue (National Archaeological Museum, Naples, 19 December 1986-30 April 1987), Naples 1986, pp. 456-458.
Regarding the cup, for a similar ornithological decoration, see Angela Caròla-Perrotti (ed.), Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli. Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806 , exhibition catalogue (National Archaeological Museum, Naples, 19 December 1986-30 April 1987), Naples 1986, pp. 456-458.
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