Castelli - Pair of oval plaques depicting the allegories of marriage and servitude - Eighteenth century

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  Castelli - Pair of oval plaques depicting the allegories of marriage and servitude - Eighteenth century

  Rare pair of oval polychrome faience plaques from Castelli titled in a phylactery: "SERVITU" and "MATRIMONIO" representing the allegory of marriage for one and of servitude for the other in the guise of a woman each supporting a yoke on their shoulders, servitude with at its feet, a stork or a heron holding a snake in the beak, marriage with a restraint on the legs and a snake at its feet, against the backdrop of a wooded landscape - Based on two engravings by Cesari Giuseppe known as the Knight of Arpin around 1625. (see the reproduction of these two engravings) - Eighteenth century - In blackened and gilded wooden frames.

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