Lot 102: A CAPODIMONTE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE GROUP OF THE SPAGHETTI-EATERS

Name: A CAPODIMONTE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE GROUP OF THE SPAGHETTI-EATERS
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 304edbc057

Est: £10,000 GBP - £15,000 GBP

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 16, 2010

Item Overview

Description

A CAPODIMONTE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE GROUP OF THE SPAGHETTI-EATERS
CIRCA 1750
Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci as Pulchinello seated on a treestump with his right hand in a large bowl of spaghetti, Columbine standing at his side with her arm on his shoulder, on a mound base
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Artist or Maker

Giuseppe (1755) Gricci

Notes

See Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane Dei Borbone di Napoli Naples, 1986, p. 155, pl. f, for a similar group with coloured decoration, and for another on a plinth base from the Otto Blohm Collection sold by Sotheby's London on 5th July 1960, lot 202, see Francesco Stazzi, l'arte della ceramica Capodimonte, Milan, 1972, p. 330, no. 142.

Auction Details

Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes

Christie's

November 16, 2010, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK

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