Dieci vasi Napoli, XIX secolo

Terracotta. Brand: absent. Dimensions: from cm 23 to cm 51. Conservation: very good; one vase with a small chipping at the base; one vase with two handles partly glued back together; one vase broken into several fragments and reassembled during restoration, , , heights from cm 25 to cm 51, These vases belong to a vast 19th century production of copies of ancient Neapolitan factories. Following the great success of the finds in Pompeii, Herculaneum and southern Italy, archaeological ceramics were imitated with reproductions, but also re-elaborations, of Greek-Italic vases, a fashion that had its origins in the Neoclassical period. Made in terracotta or opaque earthenware, they have red figures on a black background, black figures on a red background or are made entirely of bronzed terracotta. For ceramics of this type see, for example, those in Naples, Museo di San Martino, published by T. Fittipaldi, Ceramiche Castelli, Napoli, altre fabbriche, Naples 1992, pp. 276-281, 292-296, 298-299; for bronzed vases see pp. 321-325.