Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 40
A very rare Capodimonte coffee pot with cover with Commedia dell'Arte subjects, circa 1750
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,500 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A very rare Capodimonte coffee pot with cover with Commedia dell'Arte subjects, circa 1750
Decorated by Giovanni Caselli with a landscape vignette depicting Il Dottore and Arlechina, elaborate gilt scrollwork border to the rim and to the sides of the spout, 21.5cm high, traces of a fleur-de-lys mark in blue enamel (finial restored, small flat chip to inside lip of the cover) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Collection Renato Bacchi;
Guido Rossi, Milan (paper collector's label to the base);
Italian Private Collection
Literature:
G. Morazzoni, Le Porcellane Italiane, Vol II (1960) pl. 283;
G. Stazzi, l'arte della Ceramica, Capodimonte (1972);
A. Mottola Molfino, l'Arte della Porcellana in Italia (1977), pl. XIII;
A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le porcellane italiane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), pp.95ff., no. 42a-c
Exhibited:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Le Porcellane dei Borbone, 19 December 1986-20 April 1987
Commedia dell'Arte scenes are very rare on Capodimonte wares and no other examples of this shape are recorded. A small ecuelle and cover with similar Commedia dell'Arte figures is illustrated by A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le porcellane italiane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), pl. XIII. A jar or cachepot with three Pulcinella figures is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (50.211.266). Another very rare pot of slightly more usual shape was sold at Christie's Milan, 3-4 December 2001, lot 470.
