A Doccia armorial shaped oval dish from the Marchese Marana Service

1750

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A Doccia armorial shaped oval dish from the Marchese Marana Service
1750
The central accollée arms of Marana and Isola surrounded by purple scrolls centred below by a grotesque mask and suspending red cloth swags, flanked by scattered insects, the shaped gadrooned and reeded border with trailing flowers divided by insects, the underside with trailing purple flowers
12¼ in. (31.1 cm.) wide

拍品專文

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 Leonardo 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 L. 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 3 November 1997, lot 166 and another on 7 July 1997, lot 278