A Capodimonte sugar bowl and cover, circa 1750

Probably painted by Giovanni Caselli, with three landscape vignettes depicting couples, the cover similarly decorated with vignettes of buildings and ruins, the rims gilt, 9.4cm high, fleur-de-lys mark in blue (restuck section to cover) (2)

Provenance:
Italian private collection since the 1960s;
Thence by descent

Published:
Francesco Stazzi, Italian Porcelain, Pleasures and Treasures (1967), cat.no. XXXI