Two Doccia porcelain chinoiserie beakers, circa 1750

This pattern was referred to as 'a palazzi chinesi' in the factory records at Doccia and is specifically mentioned in the warehouse inventory of July 1757 which lists '85 beakers with saucers'. For two beakers with this pattern and further discussion of the possible print sources see J. Kräftner, et al., Baroque Luxury Porcelain, The Manufactories of Du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence, exhibition catalogue, Munich 2005, pp. 243-244, cat. nos. 54 and 55. Another beaker with the same pattern is illustrated by A. d'Agliano, et al., Lucca e le porcellane della Manifattura Ginori, Commissioni patrizie e ordinativi di corte, exhibition catalogue, Lucca, 2001, p. 110, no. 41, where Alessandro Biancalana mentions that this pattern was also in use in Vienna at the Du Paquier factory. Four further beakers are in the Colli collection, Milan, illustrated in A. Biancalana, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia, La Stanza delle Meraviglie di Carlo Colli, Milan, 2023, pp. 430-33, cat. no. 99.