TWELVE DOCCIA (LORENZO GINORI) INITIALED PLATES

CIRCA 1780-1790

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TWELVE DOCCIA (LORENZO GINORI) INITIALED PLATES
Circa 1780-1790
Each with a graduated garland of flowers forming the initial 'N' in the center, the edge of the cavetto gilt with a berried vine, a band of blue-centered gilt ovolo along the edge of the border
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diameter (12)

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PROVENANCE
with Wm. H. Plummer, New York (as Venice 1795-1797).

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See Alessandra Mottola Molfino, L'Arte della Porcellana in Italia, Il Veneto e la Toscana, Bramante, 1976, vol. I, fig. 441 for a small coffeepot and cover in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, its rim with an ovolo band similar to that on the present set of plates; also fig. 442 for a beaker vase in the Museo delle Porcellane di Doccia, Sesto Fiorentino painted with the same border and the gilt vine edging the cavetto of the plates.

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