A large signed Castelli D'Abruzzo maiolica plaque with river landscape decor. Große signierte Bildplatte - image-1

Lot 575 Dα

A large signed Castelli D'Abruzzo maiolica plaque with river landscape decor. Große signierte Bildplatte

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 17:00 - Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 28.000 € - 30.000 €
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A large signed Castelli D'Abruzzo maiolica plaque with river landscape decor. Große signierte Bildplatte

Painted over cream coloured glaze with a detailed river landscape in "grand feu" polychromy, with a yellow and brown border. Signed and dated within the depiction to the end of the bridge: Dr. F.A.Grue p.A.1727. With a reattached breakage to the lower right corner and two rim chips. 25 x 35.2 cm.
Grue manufactory, painted by Francesco Antonio Saverino Grue, dated 1727.

Dr. Francesco Antonio Saverino Grue is considered the most important artist of the Grue family in Castelli. He was proud of his academic title, and often included it in his signatures. After leading the ceramicists of Crivelli in a tax revolt in 1716, he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in Naples, but was still allowed to paint during this time. The present work was made just a few years after his release.

Provenance

Private collection, North Germany, purchased from Heinz Reichert, Munich.

Literature

Cf. a small tondo with a signed merchant navy scene in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Pilnitz, Munich 2006, cat. 214. Also two other signed tondi with pastoral scenes in the MAK, Vienna, illus. in: Luciana Arbace, Rome 2005, cat. 197 and 198.