Theière de Capodimonte avec couvercle de remplacement, circa 1750

A Capodimonte teapot and a replacement cover, circa 1750

Superbly painted by Giovanni Caselli each side with a landscape vignette depicting ruins, small figures and boats by a lake, below a gilt scrollwork border around the rim, the scroll handle and faceted spout embellished in gilding, the domed cover with a similar gilt scrollwork border and gilt spout, 14.5cm high, fleur-de-lys mark in blue (haircrack to one side of teapot, handle and spout cleanly restuckrestuck, cover later) (2)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's Rome, 28 November 1990, lot 292;
Acquired by the present owner in the above sale

The handle is cleanly restuck to the body of the teapot, with some old overpainting to the body around the repair and to the terminals of the handles.
There is an associated haircrack to one side of the body of the teapot (approx. 11cm), extending from the base of the handle (where it is re-attached) becoming fainter across the centre of the landscape vignette where it terminates. There is a small area of (old) overpainting over the haircrack between the base of the handle and the edge of the landscape vignette.
The spout is cleanly restuck to the body at the base (some overpainting to repair).
Otherwise generally in good condition.