1750

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A Doccia armorial plate from the Isola Marana Service
1750
The central accollée arms of Isola and Marana supported by purple scrolls surmounted by a gilt coronet and surrounded by a wreath of coloured garden flowers and scattered insects, the border with pendant iron-red diaper panels alternating with iron-red scrolls forming ruyi lappets, divided by green foliage and within a hexafoil reeded rim, the underside with three purple flower-sprays (small rim chip at 5 o'clock, slight hairline crack to well at 7 o'clock, small area of wear to a rose and minute area of wear to crown)
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Marchese Francesco Marana and his wife Laura Isola, to whom it was delivered before October 30th, 1750. For a discussion of this service see L. Ginori, '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. Further plates from this same service were sold in these Rooms on 4th October 1971, lot 165, 11th March 1996, lot 146, 7th July 1997, lot 278 and 3rd November 1997, lot 166.

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