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A Capodimonte (Carlo III) double spice-dish or salt
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A Capodimonte (Carlo III) double spice-dish or salt

CIRCA 1752, BLUE FLEUR-DE-LYS MARK

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A Capodimonte (Carlo III) double spice-dish or salt
Circa 1752, blue fleur-de-lys mark
Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, the handle formed as three elaborate rococo C-scrolls terminating at each side of the spice-dish, the terminals interwoven with applied gilt branches and green foliage, the two joined compartments edged at the rim with moulded scrolls, each end of the exterior painted with landscape vignettes with various fruit, the interior with branches of foliage, the foot formed as four joined C-scrolls, enriched in puce and gilding (chipping to feet, minute chip to tip of handle, scroll at one end and three leaves, extensive wear to gilt rims, slight wear to other gilding, firing cracks and wear to surface)
55/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

For a discussion of this type of still-life decoration at Capodimonte see Angela Carola Perrotti, op. cit. (Naples 1986), pp. 108-119. Although still-life subjects have often been given to Giovanni Caselli, Carola Perrotti inclines towards Giacomo Nani who was recorded as a painter of animali e cose naturali. The form of this salt appears to be unrecorded in the Capodimonte literature, although the rococo moulding is very similar to that of the widely illustrated mirror-frame of the same period at Capodimonte.

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