A DOCCIA GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER from the Isola Marana service, the branch handle with leaf terminals, painted in colours and gilt on one side with the Arms of Isola and Marana impaled with an elaborate baroque architectural cartouche surrounded by putti in iron-red beneath a Marchese's coronet, the reverse with a baroque vase and flowers (finial lacking), circa 1749

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A DOCCIA GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER from the Isola Marana service, the branch handle with leaf terminals, painted in colours and gilt on one side with the Arms of Isola and Marana impaled with an elaborate baroque architectural cartouche surrounded by putti in iron-red beneath a Marchese's coronet, the reverse with a baroque vase and flowers (finial lacking), circa 1749
18cm. wide

Provenance

G. Tillmann Collection

Literature

Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und Porzellan-Hausmaler, no. 236

Lot Essay

For a full discussion of this service made before October 1750 for the Marchese Francesco Marana and his wife Laura Isola who was a close friend of Marchese Ginori see Marchese Leonardo Ginori-Lisci, 'Heraldic porcelains from the Doccia factory', pp. 17-20, Keramik Freunde der Schweiz no. 40, October 1957. See also Arthur Lane, Italian Porcelain, p. 47 for a plate from this service, another plate from the Otto Blohm Collection was sold Sotheby's, 4 July 1960, lot 197 and another sold in our London Rooms, 4 October 1971, lot 165

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