Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Paintings below is square tablet joined

below is square tablet joined with twin carved heart shaped supports

The putti hang on the wall and have a metal hook to the rear

The table top having the original brown tooled inset leather writing surface

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Salinas continued to paint throughout the last decades of his life

Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Paintings below is square tablet joinedA 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