Fedele Cappelletti (Rapino, 1847 - Rapino, 1920)

Fedele Cappelletti (Rapino, 1847 - Rapino, 1920) Large parade vase depicting mythological scenes, with pagoda lid. 1919 painted majolica height 60 cm painted majolica height 60 cm 1919Precious work by Fedele Cappelletti, a leading exponent of the Abruzzo ceramicist tradition, the large vase rests on a foot decorated with cartouches and features, within various backgrounds, mythological marine characters, Nereid and Triton, sailors and putti. The lid has a pagoda-like shape and offers the same ornaments as the vase, executed through soft and delicate color tones. The base bears Cappelletti's signature and, below, the date 1919. The object has the same shape and size as the Saverio Grue vase in the "Paparella-Treccia" museum collection in Pescara, and was certainly executed by Cappelletti with the same mold. Signed at the base "FCappelletti made" with the letters F and C intertwined. At the bottom inscription "Ernesto and Giorgià" and the date "20.9.919" Fedele Cappelletti was directed by his father Fabio to study in Chieti at the workshop of the painter Francesco Paolo Marchiano, whose pupil Francesco Paolo Michetti had also been. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he had the opportunity to be taught by Filippo Palizzi, who was very enthusiastic about the young man. After finishing school he returned to his hometown, where he began a long and steady study of eighteenth-century ceramics, focusing on the works of masters such as Carlo Antonio Grue, Carmine Gentili, Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue and his own ancestors Candeloro and Nicola Cappelletti. Conservation status: excellent