212 ITALIAN CERAMICS
368- Tabletop
Naples, circa 1760
By Francesco Saverio II Maria Grue
Tin-glazed earthenware
Inscribed on the obverse, in two cartouches,
FLAVA CERES TENUS SPI CIS RED EM I TA
CAPILLOS and FORTUNAT SUAE
QUISQUE FABER; signed on the horses
haunch in scene of Europeans hunting a
deer, SG; and signed on the horse's haunch
in scene of Moors hunting ostriches, FSG.
Height: ιr4 in. (3.2 cm);
Diameter: 1 ft. 11Κ in. (59.7 cm)
Accession number 86.DE. 533
PROVENANCE
Earl of Warwick, Warwickshire; (sold,
Sotheby's, London, March 4,1986, lot 24);
[Winifred Williams, Ltd., London].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacqueline Guillaumin, "Majoliques tardives:
δ prospecter," Connaissance des arts 419
(1987), p. 12, fig. 4; "Acquisitions/1986,
GettyMusJ 15 (1987), no. 116, p. 217, illus.;
Guido Donatone, "Pasquale Criscuolo e
la Maiolica Napoletana dell'Etδ Rococo,"
Centro Studi per U Storia delh Cerαmica
Meridionale: Quaderno (1988), fig. 1; Hess,
Maiolica, no. 35, pp. 116-119.