1950s Mid-Century Capodimonte Dish

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For your consideration...a very fine Capodimonte 9" Plate

All hand painted and very colorful with Gold accents

The deep dish … Read more For your consideration...a very fine Capodimonte 9" Plate

All hand painted and very colorful with Gold accents

The deep dish features allegorical frieze with a deep well

Harvest Allegory, based on old Roman stories of Love, Romance, Nature

a delightfully quirky wedding gift

Signed on the base






In 1743, the newly arrived Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples and his wife Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony, founded the factory in the grounds of the Palace of Capodimonte on the outskirts of Naples (now a museum). The queen's grandfather, Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony, had founded the Meissen porcelain factory which led European porcelain, and her dowry is said to have included 17 Meissen table services.[7] They recruited the Flemish chemist Livio Ottavio Schepers, whose son also joined, and the painter Giovanni Caselli (1698–1752), later followed by his niece Maria. The Florentine sculptor Giuseppe Gricci (c. 1700–1770), already working for the Neapolitan crown since 1738, joined as chief modeller; by 1755 he had five other modellers working for him, creating the moulds used for the pieces.[8]

The factories and Style flourish till today surviving revolutions,wars,time and tastes See less