Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Drawings & Prints and Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch has claimed

and Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch has claimed that the painter Pyotr Nilus was related to Sergei Nilus

surrounded by an illuminating halo

and they had six children together

He often completed assignments for leading Antwerp art dealers such as Matthijs Musson and Guillam Forchondt

This mirror as it is full length can freestand from the floor

Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Drawings & Prints and Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch has claimedA 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