plate

Royal Naples Factory

Summary

Public: Plate, soft paste porcelain, figure of Polymnia, painted in green, blue, yellow, brown, mauve and iron red enamel colours. Private: Plate, soft paste porcelain. Circular, with shallow well in centre and broad rim moulded with four panels of scrolling foliage and a rim of beading. Painted in green, blue, yellow, brown, mauve and iron red enamel colours in the centre with the muse Polymnia, wearing a laurel wreath and classical costume, standing in a landscape on a low plinth inscribed in Greek. In reserved panels on the rim four miniature scenes of dwarfs in landscapes, painted and tooled in two colours of gold.