Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 31
A very rare Capodimonte teapot and cover, circa 1750
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £20,000 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A very rare Capodimonte teapot and cover, circa 1750
Decorated 'a fiori coreani', or with Oriental-style flowers, in polychrome colours below a rich band of gilt strapwork, the moulded spout and handle decorated in gold, the cover with similar gilt border and single flowers, 14.5cm high, fleur-de-lys mark in blue enamel (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. Paul von Ostermann Collection, Darmstadt/Munich, sold by P. Cassirer and H. Helbing, Berlin, 30 October-2 November 1928, lot 343;
Ernesto Blohm Collection, Hamburg, sold by Sotheby's London, 4-5 July 1960, lot 198;
Italian Private Collection
Literature:
R. Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm (1953), plate 39, no. 141 (as Vezzi);
A. Mottola Molfino, L'Arte della Porcellana in Italia (1977) cat.no. XIX;
A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986) plate IV [I,1];
A. d'Agliano, Porcellane Italiane dalla collezione Lokar (2013) p.220-221
Exhibited:
Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, 19 December 1986-30 April 1987
The coffee pot, two saucers and sugar bowl for this service with the same decoration are in the collection of Giovanni Lokar (published by A. d'Agliano, Porcellane Italiane dalla collezione Lokar (2013), no. 110). In her discussion of the piece, Caròla-Perrotti (op.cit., p.70) notes that the decoration is based on Asian decorative elements fused with iconography taken from European botanical prints.
