A rare Capodimonte beaker

A rare Capodimonte flared beaker, finely painted in coloured enamels with an obelisk and a ruined column in a wooded landscape, a central stone flragment with the inscription 'V.S.V.R.I', 2 3/4" high, circa 1745-50, traces of blue fleur-de-lys mark

Provenance; English Private Collection

For a celebrated set of four beakers of this form, decorated with musical subjects, see F Stazzi, Capodimonte, pl.54. Also compare with a beaker in the Duca di Martina Museum, Naples.

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