Ceramics & Glass

In 2017, the department of Ceramics and Glass achieved a percentage of 58.1% of lots sold and of 109.1% of lots sold in terms of value.
The most interesting lots included a group of three jugs and three albarellos made in Castelli, from the Gentile workshop, dating back to the last quarter of the Eighteenth century and 1685-1700. They were destined to the apothecary shop of Naples’ hospital San Giacomo degli Spagnoli. These majolicas, decorated with the coat of arms of the family Caracciolo Rossi – Orsini – Carafa, were sold for 14,260 euro.
Among the majolicas that went under the hammer, another albarello in white and blue majolica, decorated with stylised patterns, from the Sixteenth-Seventeenth century, from a kiln in Caltagirone, which was sold for 5,208 euro.
As for Italian porcelain, a porcelain tableware, made by Doccia manufactury, from the end of the Eighteenth century, decorated with tulips. Tulips are surely one of the most common decorative motifs used by the Ginori kilns. The decorative lot was sold for 6,200 euro.