Lot 138*
A Capodimonte group of a dancing couple (Il Minuetto), circa 1750
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
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Find your local specialistA Capodimonte group of a dancing couple (Il Minuetto), circa 1750
Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, dancing arm in arm, the gentleman wearing a pale-yellow waistcoat and black breeches with gilt details, his companion wearing a gilt-lined purple bonnet, pale-blue bodice, white skirt edged with a blue and iron-red pattern and yellow shoes, on a rockwork base with tree-stump support at the rear, 21.8cm high (her right arm restuck)
Footnotes
Provenance:
European Private Collection since the 1980s
Literature:
A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), no. 104, col. pl. XXXII
Exhibited:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 'Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli: Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806', 10 December 1986=30 April 1987
One of several groups identified by Angela Caròla-Perrotti as probably based on engravings after Watteau's paintings, it was likely based on 'Embarkation for Cythera' or 'The Pleasures of the Ball'. Another example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 1982.450.1).
