Lot 64
64
A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) COFFEE-POT AND COVER
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) COFFEE-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1747-52, BLUE FLEUR-DE-LYS MARK

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A CAPODIMONTE (CARLO III) COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1747-52, BLUE FLEUR-DE-LYS MARK
Of baluster form, gilded in the style of the Seuter Workshop at Augsburg with huntsmen and hounds chasing stags flanked by trees and palms in landscape vignettes on scroll and trelliswork supports, the scroll handle richly gilt, the scroll spout with scroll and flowerhead ornament, gilt rims, the domed cover with two birds perched in branches beneath a tapering knop finial (slight chip to footrim of pot, minute flake to handle, finial restuck and two chips to rim of cover, wear to rim of cover, slight wear to gilding on spout)
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A teapot and cover from the same service was sold in these Rooms on 24 May 2011, lot 59.

For a full discussion of this type of decoration at Capodimonte, see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Exhibition Catalogue, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, December 1986 - April 1987, Naples, 1986, pp. 130-134.

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