Two Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, plates from the 'Servizio delle Vestiture', circa 1783-88Two Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, plates from the 'Servizio delle Vestiture', circa 1783-88Each painted with a circular harbour scene, depicting a man holding a pipe standing by a seated lady holding a fish in a basket and a lady holding a basket of fish with a child, respectively, enclosed by a gilt foliate border, the rims with formal gilt borders, titled on the reverse in iron-red 'Della Marina della Torre del' Greco' and 'Donna della Marina di Pozzuoli', 25.8cm and 25.5cm diam., both with crowned FRF mark in iron-red (some wear to gilt rims, very minor surface wear) (2)Provenance:Ferdinand IV, King of Naples;European Private Collection since the 1980sLiterature:A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), nos. 308 and 309Exhibited:Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 'Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli: Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806', 19 December 1986-30 April 1987The decoration on the 'Servizio delle Vestiture del Regno' is largely based on gouaches of two artists, Saverio Della Gatta and Alessandro D'Anna, and later Stefano Santucci, who were hired by Venuti to travel the country and make a record of all the regional costumes of the Kingdom. Their gouaches were widely used at the factory. Another important source for the factory was the publication of the 'Raccolta di varii Vestimenti ed Arti del Regno di Napoli' by the artist Pietro Fabris in 1773.For further examples from the service see Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit., pp. 381ff. Two plates from the service are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (CIRC.749-1919). Two more are in the Reeves Collection, Washington and Lee University. Two plates from the Fiordalisi Collection were sold in these Rooms, 7 December 2017, lot 80.