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Antique Furniture & Paintings from an Italian Estate

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 03:00 PM • Milan

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Four polychrome porcelain cups, three of which with saucers, Antonibon manufacture, Nove, 1770-1790 circa

Estimate

€ 150 - 200

Sold

€ 194

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

h max cm 3,9; d cm 11,5
a pair of cups with saucer decorated with scattered bouquets of flowers within green scales border and gilt rocaille scrolls, marked (chipping) (h cm 4; d cm 11.5); a cup without saucer decorated with garlands of red and gold flowers intertwining with a purple foliate thread, marked (h cm 3.8); cup with saucer with blue and iron red oriental motif decoration (two felures in the saucer) (h cm 3.9; d cm 11.5)

Specialist Notes

A cup and saucer with similar green scale decoration of French influence and arrived in Veneto from German manufactures is preserved in Cà Rezzonico, Venice (inv. V. 115), published in AA.VV., La Ceramica degli Antonibon, exhibition catalog, Milan 1990, p. 134, fig. 192.A similar cup with garlanded decoration is in the Museo Civico di Bassano (R. Ausenda in AA.VV., La Ceramica degli Antonibon, exhibition catalog, Milan 1990, tab. 194, p. 135), while a coffee pot with the same decoration is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Lane, 1954, no. 89).