An extensive Naples decorated porcelain part-service, circa 1830

brightly painted with vignettes of couples of birds perched on branches, within gilded bands and an anthemion wreath border at the rims, most numbered 1. or 2. with their specimen script title to reverse, comprising 24 plates, 12 soup plates, two large chargers and two boat-shaped dishes, variously marked G, Giovine, Giovine in Napoli, Luise in Napoli, various impressed and incised marks,

1 plate has a footrim chip; 4 have a rim chip to the underside; 2 plates have a hairline crack, one of which also has a chip. 1 charger with a section of the rim riveted, the other with a rim chip. There are varying degrees of stacking wear to the gilding at the rims and wells predominantly effecting the plates.
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In the years following the closure of the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea factory as a result of the French occupation of Naples, undecorated Paris porcelain began to be imported and often decorated in Naples. Raffaele Giovine, who enjoyed patronage from the Duke of Calabria, later Francis I of Naples and the Two Sicilies, ran a lucrative porcelain decorating workshop painting such porcelain. The bird specimens are probably taken from François Nicolas Martinet's engravings in the work Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux by George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.