1750
Details
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
9¼in. (23.5cm.) diam.
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
9¼in. (23.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
By descent from the Marchese Marana to the present owner.
The arms are those of Marchese Francesco Marana and his wife Laura Isola, to whom it was delivered before October 30, 1750.
For a discussion of this service see L. Ginori 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 7 July 1997, lot 278, 11 March 1996, lot 146 and another on 4 October 1971, lot 165.
The arms are those of Marchese Francesco Marana and his wife Laura Isola, to whom it was delivered before October 30, 1750.
For a discussion of this service see L. Ginori 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 7 July 1997, lot 278, 11 March 1996, lot 146 and another on 4 October 1971, lot 165.