Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
A Rare Vezzi Iron-Red Beaker, Circa 1725
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April 4, 02:39 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Rare Vezzi Iron-Red Beaker, Circa 1725
painted with a continuous scene of a figure wearing roman armour holding a large arrow standing with a collard hound in front of him, with a cluster of buildings in the distance behind him, the inside edge of the rim painted with a stylized chevron band
V =a mark in iron-red
height 3 in.
7.6 cm
A very similar beaker painted in this manner, marked 'A / Ven: / .P.', is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. C.38-1932, formerly in collection of Sir W. Drake, ca. 1868, illustrated in Francesco Stazzi, Porcellane Della Casa Eccellentissima, VezzI (1720-1727), Milan 1967, tav. LXXVI; Alessandra Mottola Molfino, L'Arte Della Porcellana in Italia, 1976, no. 74.