Los Nr. 51 - Web Auction 72

Los Nr. 51

Keramik
Ink bottle

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Status:
geschl. Auktion

Beschreibung

Ink bottle

Very complex inkwell formed by a high shaped parallelepiped container, supported by four lion's feet; it contains two glasses on the sides with two small glasses inside, one drilled for the sand, the other for the ink with the two lids; on the main side, a small drawer with a knob; On the sides of the glasses, towards the centre, two pen holders rise, almost in the form of tree trunks, ending in fingers; between the two pen holders stands an eagle in a central position, with wings bent in closed flight, beak facing upwards and a long tail, which descends on the protruding side decorated with a blue-brown weave.
Majolica painted in polychromy with landscapes on a white background; in the drawer two large palmettes on the sides of the yellow knob. The main landscape among the glasses has a twisted tree on the left, follows the stream and on the right at the bottom of the building, in the lower meadow with sheep, in the distance mountains blue.
Cm. 21 x 10; h. 10; penholder, h. cm. 18. Cond: very good; small peeling in a lid.

Castles, Saverio Grue (1731 - 1800ca), 1750ca

Extremely rare and extraordinary example of majolica ink pot, certainly made to order with design, is inserted by the grace of the landscapes in the castle tradition, but due to the complexity and beauty of the form it is completely outside the traditional Abruzzese religious figurines or popular taste of great popularization . An indication of character, not really heraldic, but certainly elitist and symbol of a refined bourgeoisie, is captured in the eagle-shaped statue which appears in a closed flight; with its wings gathered as in meditation, it indicates the "prudence" that must always be in the conduct of life and business, characteristics of an emerging bourgeoisie in the social life of a great kingdom which was Naples in the eighteenth century.
For the artistic styles of the great castle tradition, the inkwell is placed in the production of the last great painter of the Grue family, Saverio (1731- 1799ca), son of the famous dr. Grue, who had worked for a few years in Naples where he married and where Saverio was born. He learned the art and carried out his first activity in Castelli, where he often returned and where he continued the paternal tradition, already from the end of the '40s of the' 700; it is in this period that we insert the inkwell. Some majolica tiles he has always present the arboreal fronds in delicate but particular colors, always moved by the wind from left to right, towards the main scene. A very gifted artist, he is considered among the most interesting in the transition between tradition and modernity. In fact, following trips to Europe he turned to a Central European ceramic production, in the Royal Porcelain Factory in Naples, where he worked after 1772.
[It is possible to follow Saverio Grue's stylistic evolution in some majolica pieces from the Bindi Collection in Pescara, now in the Diocesan Museum of Atri; cfr.Aa.-Vv., the ancient pottery of Abruzzo in the Capitular Museum of Atri, nn. 24-27.]
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