Giuseppe Ricci, Botticella liquor holder, Capodimonte Manufacture XVIIIth Century
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Manufacture of Capodimonte 1757-1763 Center table group modeled by Giuseppe Ricci Botticella liquor holder Polychrome porcelain height 44.5 cm The precious work consists of a support base depicting a satyr and a satiress arranged around rocks among which he sees a leopard. The tree trunks that emerge from the rocks act as a support for the liquor-holder barrel. The rare composition is decorated in polychrome in the typical palette used in the Neapolitan factory of Capodimonte but with the addition of golden touches in the branches of the vine twisted around the branches of the tree, in the threads of the quadrangular base of support and above