AN ITALIAN SILVER-GILT EWER AND BASIN MARK OF OTTAVIO NUTTI, LUCCA, 1743-1783

The circular basin chased and engraved to the border depicting battle scenes between merpeople, hippocampi, birds, and other mythical creatures, the center depicting a similar battle between humans and merpeople centering the emblem of the Medici family, the vase-form ewer similarly decorated and with acanthus and grotesque mask borders, with serpent-form loop handle, marked on rim of basin and foot of ewer, and with French import mark
235⁄8 in. (60 cm.) diameter, the basin; 151⁄4 in. (38.5 cm.) high, the ewer
110 oz. 8 dwt. (3,433 gr.)

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Monaco, 16-17 June 2001, lot 359.