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

Lamart interprets for the first time in Capodimonte porcelain, the legend of the "Teste di Moro" a story of love, jealousy and revenge.

• A Sicilian girl of noble origins lived a clandestine love affair with a young Arab, but this impossible love was soon discovered and the dishonorable act punished with the decapitation of both young lovers. The shame of this love would also be proclaimed by posting both heads (turned into vases for the occasion) on a balcony. The massacre, exalted by these heads placed at the mercy of passers-by, would thus have been an effective warning against any other possible unseemly passion. For this reason, the Moorish heads would be made in pairs, in memory and in honor of the two murdered lovers.