Eye Catching Capodimonte Style Vintage Flower Potpourri Pot

AN EYE CATCHING CAPODIMONTE STYLE FLORAL DECORATED LIDDED POTPOURRI POT. MAIN OVAL BODY WITH A MESH LIKE PIERCED HOLE STRUCTURE. ELABORATELY DECORATED WITH RED, BLUE, YELLOW AND PINK ROSES WITH SOME GREEN FOLIAGE AROUND.
 
CIRCA 1940SS TO 1950S. HAND PAINTED ITEM FROM ITALY. ONE CAN SEE ITS HAND PAINTED ESPECIALLY ON THE INSIDE FLORAL BOUQUET. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS.
 
USED AS A POTPURRI BOWL TO FILL WITH a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant materials to provide a gentle natural scent in your home. A FEW FLOWER PETALS HAS BROKEN OFF BUT IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFULL FULLY FUNCTIONAL ITEM.
 
SIZE: 26CM LONG 23CM HIGH UP TO LID TOP 17CM WIDE
 
CONDITION: A FEW FLOWER PETALS BROKEN OFF. MAIN BODY IN TACT. STILL A BEAUTIFUL PIECE.
 
CAPODIMONTE STYLE:
Capodimonte is a distinctive style of porcelain that stands apart from all the other ceramic traditions of southern Italy. This delicate, ornate porcelain historically produced outside of Naples is immediately recognizable for its tiny pastel flowers, sprays of buds, baskets, and elegant figurines.
IN 1743, THE ITALIAN KING CHARLES III, WHO RULED NAPLES IN THE 1700S AND HIS QUEEN, MARIA AMALIA VALPURGA, CONVERTED HIS HUNTING LODGE OUTSIDE OF NAPLES, SITUATED ON A HILL CALLED CAPODIMONTE, INTO A PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY AS PART OF THE REAL FABBRICA. HIS GOAL WAS TO PRODUCE PORCELAIN THAT WOULD VIE WITH OTHER FAMOUS EUROPEAN ROYAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTURES, ESPECIALLY MEISSEN. He hired Livio and Gaetano Schepers as arcanists, or those with special knowledge of the raw materials that make up porcelain. The Schepers brothers job was to concoct a secret recipe that would account for a distinctive look and feel in the porcelain that would be forever associated with Capodimonte. The king and queen, according to historians, were intensely interested in the Schepers brothers experiments, and checked in on them on a regular basis. The king commissioned Giuseppe Gricci, a Florentine sculptor who had worked for the court in Italy and Madrid, as the chief modeler of the factory. He also employed a renowned painter named Giovanni Caselli.
The Schepers brothers challenge in concocting Neapolitan porcelain was that kaolin, a type of clay considered essential to porcelain, was in short supply in Italy. They experimented with various combinations of clay pulled from sources across southern Italy until they came up with a combination that worked. The porcelain recipe that the Schepers brothers eventually developed resulted in warm white tone, bringing a distinctive appearance to the works that emerged from the Capodimonte factory. The works were decorated with glazes known for their bright palette of red, yellow, orange, and green, coated with a lustrous finish.
The factory began producing full sets of tableware, vases and other vessels, as well as small decorative objects and figurines in a Baroque style typical of the mid-eighteenth century. In that early period of Capodimonte, snuffboxes were among the factorys most popular items. Figures of theater characters such as Pulcinella, as well as Neapolitan peasants engaged in dancing, daily chores, and other pastoral activities, were also popular. FLOWERS BECAME ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING SUBJECTS OF CAPODIMONTE PORCELAIN BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO LEGEND, KING CHARLES WAS ALLERGIC TO FLOWERS; PORCELAIN VERSIONS WERE THE ONLY ONES HE COULD ENJOY.
 
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