Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Paintings The top having a crestrail

The top having a crestrail with a raised recantangular flame mahogany tablet

below is square tablet joined with twin carved heart shaped supports

Bucks County

to the top is an engraved circular dial with "Tocar & Silencio"

Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Paintings The top having a crestrailA fine and early pair of antique Italian Cantagalli maiolica (majolica) hand painted Istoriato plates, Florence, Italy, circa 1880. This very fine pair of plates decorated in the Istoriato style, first popularized in the Italian Renaissance of the early 1500s. Each plate with a scalloped rim, and each finely hand painted with putti in landscape scenes. One with a putto playing a drum with a cityscape to the background, the other with a winged putto