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 shaped reeded rim, the underside with trailing purple flowers
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) wide

Provenance

Marchese Francesco Marana, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Special notice

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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 30th October, 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 (Milan, 1963), p. 48, fig 25, and for a coffee-pot see Oreste Ferrari, Porcellane Italiane del Settecento (Milan, 1966), 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, 3rd November 1997, lot 166 and 24th February 2003, lot 51.

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