A very rare Capodimonte turquoise-blue-ground tea canister and cover, circa 1745-50

Of baluster form, each side reserved with a gilt-edged panel finely painted by Giacomo Nani with a still-life of vegetables, gilt rims and finial, 14.2cm high, fleur-de-lys mark in blue (two restored small flat chips to underside of rim of cover, some faint crazing) (2)

Provenance:
Luzzatto Collection, Milan, by 1960;
Italian Private Collection

Literature:
G. Morazzoni, Le Porcellane Italiane (1960), vol. II, pl. 307b;
A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), no. 84

The waste bowl from the same turquoise-ground service is illustrated by Morazzoni (1960), col. pl. XXI.