Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 48*
A rare Doccia coffee pot and cover, circa 1748-50
Withdrawn
Amended
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£25,000 - £30,000
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare Doccia coffee pot and cover, circa 1748-50
Decorated, likely by Giuseppe Romei, with continuous landscape scenes in puce camaieu, the spout moulded as an open griffin face, the domed cover with similar decoration, 21.5cm high (some restoration to rim)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Roberto Bondi Collection, Florence;
Christie's Geneva, 30 April 1975, lot 24
Literature:
Giuseppe Liverani, Il Museo delle Porcellane di Doccia, pl. 27
The reverse of the large table fountain in the Ickworth collection is decorated with a similar purple monochrome landscape attributed to Giuseppe Romei; see John Winter, Doccia Porcelain at Ickworth, in Quaderni II (2008), p. 16, fig. 3. Romei received payments as early as 1743 for decoration 'in purpuro'; see A. Biancalana, I pittori della Manifattura di Doccia dal 1740 al 1784, in Quaderni I (2007), p.41.
Saleroom notices
Please note, this lot is withdrawn.
