"Capodimonte" is one of those names that's had a stranger afterlife than the factory that originated it. The real Capodimonte porcelain manufactory operated in Naples in the 1700's under royal patronage, closed, and the name and characteristic style, elaborate florals, pale palettes, decorative Italian figures, was later revived and licensed out to numerous twentieth-century Italian workshops, of which A. Belcari's is one. So a piece marked this way today is generally understood as being in the Capodimonte tradition rather than from the original eighteenth-century factory itself.
This figure shows an Edwardian-style young woman holding an ornate flower basket, finished in a cream body with gilt accents and pale pink flowers, mounted on a round wooden base, a fairly typical presentation choice for later twentieth-century decorative Italian porcelain meant to sit directly on a shelf without additional display hardware.
Condition notes
Great vintage condition. Some very light wear to gilt.
