An extremely rare Capodimonte chestnut-brown-ground cup and saucer, circa 1750The chestnut-coloured ground ('a fondo marrone') with lambrequin-shaped gilt-edged reserves painted in enamels heightened in gilding with flowers, the inside rims with gilt foliate scrollwork borders, the handle embellished in gilding, fleur-de-lys marks in brown and blue enamel (small very flat chip to rim of cup) (2)注脚Literature:A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borboni di Napoli (1986), no. 85, col. pl. XXVIThis is the only known example of this ground colour.