Nove, Antonibon Style Faience Ecuelle, Cover and Stand
£780
A Nove, Antonibon style faience ecuelle, cover and stand
Moulded with blue/green-edged, recessed and lobed panels painted in puce camaieu with ruins and buildings in landscapes, the yellow ground moulded with puce-edged scrollwork and applied with ochre flowers, the finial as a cormorant pecking on a pomegranate, spurious star mark in ochre to ecuelle
Width 22.5 cm (9inches) across the stand
Provenance:
Christie’s London, 10 April 1972, lot 58
A similarly-shaped 18th century Nove porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007.254.1a & b).
