Italian Majolica Footed Compote with Festoon Garlands & Fruit, Pattern 1757 View Watchlist >
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Lot # F809
System ID # 29487246
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Italian Majolica Footed Compote with Festoon Garlands & Fruit, Pattern 1757
A footed majolica compote in the neoclassical taste, hand-painted over a periwinkle ground with applied relief swags of fruit and foliage suspended from crimson ribbon festoons. Yellow lemons, blush-red pomegranates, and orange citrus nest in deeply modeled green leaves around the bowl, repeated as a continuous garland encircling the splayed foot. The interior is glazed cream, the rim banded in ochre, and the columnar pedestal painted with blue fluting in the manner of a classical urn.
The underside is hand-marked "1757 / ITALY" with a small painted maker's device, identifying this as a 20th-century Italian production piece in the long tradition of central-Italian tin-glazed earthenware (specific pottery workshop not identified from the mark alone). The raised, hand-applied fruit and the bright polychrome palette place it among the decorative majolica wares produced for export through the mid-1900s.
CONDITION
Excellent with no damage. Some crazing throughout the glaze, most visible across the interior. Minor firing imperfections present at the top rim, consistent with the hand-finished production.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 4 7/8" H × 6 5/8" Diameter
- Weight: 1 lb 1 oz
- Marked: "1757 / ITALY" with painted maker's device, underside
- Campbell's Tomato Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale — Not Included
