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Lot 131

A pair of rare Capodimonte swans, circa 1748-55

2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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A pair of rare Capodimonte swans, circa 1748-55

Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, each cleaning its right wing, on a rocky base painted with sprigs of reeds and moss, the beaks, eyes and webbed feet heightened in enamels, 7.8cm high, one with impressed fleur-de-lys (tip of one swan's left wing restored) (2)

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Literature:
A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), no. 179, col. pl. XLVI

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