A pair of large Italian giltwood-mounted maiolica vases and covers, by Fernando Maria Campani, Siena circa 1730

of heavily moulded baroque campana form, with rustic scenes, one side depicting a boar hunt, the other with peasants at work shearing sheep in a lush landscape, the lower parts with three smaller landscape scenes within boldly moulded scrolling bat-mask reserves and scroll borders, on ogee moulded octagonal bases, the gilt covers with gadrooned tapering cone finials; minor chips and flakes, one socle damaged

Galerie Perrin, Paris

Minor chips and flakes, one base damaged.
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Vases of a similar form with a suggested date of circa 1730 are illustrated by Elena Pelizzoni and Giovanna Znachi in La maiolica dei Terchi, Centro Di, Florence, 1982, p.43. no. 20, 21.
These rural scenes, executed in a soft palette unlike the brown-dominated, firmly drawn work of Terchi himself, were a favourite subject of Fernando Campani, often taken from engravings by Jan von Ossenbeeck. In this case, the original appears to be a painting by Bassano; see Pelizoni and Zanchi, op.cit., p.98, no. 86.