Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Drawings & Prints He often completed assignments for

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

Gustave Van Vaerenbergh attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent

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Antique 19th Century Pair Early Cantagalli Majolica Istoriato Plates Italy 1880 Drawings & Prints He often completed assignments forA 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