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TWO CASTELLI MAIOLICA CAMPANA-SHAPED TWO-HANDLED VASES AND DOMED COVERS
CIRCA 1730-40
TWO CASTELLI MAIOLICA CAMPANA-SHAPED TWO-HANDLED VASES AND DOMED COVERS CIRCA 1730-40 Each painted by Liborio Grue and signed L.G.P. , with blue upright handles, the first with Triton and a nereid playing pan-pipes beside Cupid in a continuous seascape, the other side with putti battling with a sea monster, the cover and lower part of the vase with beast masks below the initials .L.G.P. within grey shield-shaped baroque cartouches reserved against foliage and ochre and blue flowerheads flanked by putti, with traces of gilding, the spreading foot with two satyrs, within ochre and blue stiff-leaf rims (cracked through foot and restuck, one handle restored, restoration to rim with associated overpainting to interior, short hairline cracks to rim, small footrim chip); the second vase painted with two nereids carrying aloft a basket of flowers flanked by putti in a continuous seascape, the other side with a nereid drawn in a chariot by a sea monster before a putto carrying a flaming torch and another with a floral garland, the cover and lower part of the vase with similar beast masks and initials, within grey shield-shaped baroque cartouches reserved against foliage and ochre and blue flowerheads flanked by two kneeling scantily-draped figures in shades of grey, the spreading foot with two figures of satyrs, enriched in gilding, within similar blue and ochre lines and a stiff-leaf footrim (rim chipping) The first 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high; the second 16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high (2)