18. A rare Capodimonte porcelain cup and saucer with yellow base, circa 1750 A rare yellow-ground Capodimonte cup and saucer, circa 1750 Decorated by Giovanni Caselli, the saucer with a large quince and apples laying on the ground in a naturalistic landscape, the cup with melon, peach and grapes in a similar landscape, a butterfly hovering over the fruit, both landscapes in symmetrical baroque cartouches of double gilt and black lines, saucer 13cm diam, fleur de lys mark in underglaze-blue to both cup and saucer, (some small rim chips) (2) Provenance: Private collection, Rome; With Lukacs & Donath, Rome, (paper label to the base) Literature: Molfino, Alessandra Mottola, L'arte della porcellana in Italia, 1977, pl. XXIV (ill.)