Palais Royal Pair of Red/Gold Moorish Heads, 28 cm

Lamart interprets for the first time in Capodimonte porcelain, the legend of the "Moor's Heads", a story of love, jealousy and revenge.

• A Sicilian girl of noble origins had a clandestine affair with a young Arab, but this impossible love was soon discovered, and the dishonorable act was punished with the beheading of both young lovers. The shame of this love was further proclaimed by the hanging of both heads (transformed into vases for the occasion) on a balcony. The outrage, heightened by these heads exposed to the mercy of passersby, was thus intended to serve as a warning against any other possible unseemly passion. For this reason, the Moor's Heads were created in pairs, in memory and honor of the two murdered lovers.