Pair of Capodimonte ceramic Wall Hanging Plaques, boy and girl praying, Italian 1960s
Starting Bid: | £5.00 |
Bid Increment: | £1.00 |
Next Min Bid: | £6.00 |
Buyer’s Premium: | £1.20 |
Total Amount: | £6.20 |
Number of Bids: | 0 |
Location: | United Kingdom |
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Auction Start: | 02/11/24 10:16:00 UTC |
Auction Ending: | 16/11/24 20:00:00 UTC |
Time Remaining: | 9d 16h 38m |
LOT NUMBER 1
Pair of Capodimonte ceramic Wall Hanging Plaques, boy and girl praying, Italian 1960s
This is a charming pair of small ceramic wall plaques, the biscuit porcelain with a slight ivory tint, with moulded designs of a boy and a girl praying, their hair and robes carefully detailed, set in velvet covered oval frames with cording at the edge which also forms the loop hangers at the top. Near identical pieces often have a paper mark at the back reading ‘Porcellane Capodimonte’ ‘Made in Italy’ surrounding a crown device with an ‘N’ above. Capodimonte porcelain was first made at Naples, Italy, in the mid eighteenth century and was often marked with an ‘N’ and a crown above. The original factory was to enjoy a relatively short life but there were many imitators in the nineteenth century and beyond to the twentieth who freely used the Capodimonte name. This pair of plaques is a very modest and fairly recent (probably dating to the 1960s) example of these ‘Capodimonte’ wares but nonetheless have a distinct appeal of their own.Size: | Ht 15cm (max) Width 8.5cm (max) Depth 2cm (max) |
Weight: | 150gm (pair) |
Date: | 1960s |
Condition: | Good condition, no issues |
Estimate: | £20 – 30 |