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Castelli - Plate (Tagliere) "Venus and love"
With polychrome decoration in the center Venus and love, Venus at the foot of a rock is sitting leaning towards the left;
Cupid, standing against her and cutting her bow, On the wing with a yellow background, two cartridges in blue between
two loves holding garlands of flowers.
The composition is taken from an engraving of the series "Scherzi di amore" by Odoardo Fialetti.
Sculpted wooden frame with gilded shells and acanthus leaves of later period.
Diam: 16,5cm - Diam: 33cm with the frame.
First half of the eighteenth century.
Similar or similar model: The majoliques of the national museums - Jeanne Giacomotti - N ° 1402 - Collection of the museum of Cluny - Paris. With an attribution to the factory of the Grue.
Other model on the same subject: Museum of San Martino N ° 262 of the catalog of the museum - Teodoro Fittipaldi - Editions Electa Napoli.