A Doccia armorial plate from the Marchese Marana Service

1750

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A Doccia armorial plate from the Marchese Marana Service
1750
The central accollée arms of Marana and Isola surrounded by purple scrolls, a wreath of coloured garden flowers beneath a gilt coronet and scattered iron-red insects, the shaped reeded border with pendant iron-red scrolls forming ru-yi lappets flanked by pendant foliage and iron-red diaper panels, the underside with trailing purple flowers
9½in. (24cm.) diam.

Provenance

By descent from the Marchesa Marana to the present owner.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Marchese Francesco Marana and his wife Laura Isola, to whom it was delivered before Oct. 30, 1750.

For a discussion of this service see L. Giriori Lisci, 'Heraldic Porcelains from the Doccia Factory', Keramik Freunde der Schweiz, no. 40, pp. 17-21.

For a plate with the same Arms see Leonardo Ginori Lisci, La Porcellana di Doccia (1963), p. 48, fig. 25 and for a coffee-pot see, Oreste Ferrari, Porcellane Italiane del Settecento, p. 109. A plate from the same service was sold in these Rooms on 11 March 1996, lot 146 and on 4 October 1971, lot 165.

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