A Rare Richard Ginori ‘Khedive’ Pattern Part-Service, Late 19th/ Early 20th Century
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A Rare Richard Ginori ‘Khedive’ Pattern Part-Service, Late 19th/ Early 20th Century
designed by Gaetano Lodi, vibrantly painted and gilt in Egyptian taste, the serving wares painted with medallions of birds perched on water reeds, modelled with reeds and scarab beetles, comprising:
24 dinner plates, diam. 10 1/4 in.,
12 soup plates, diam. 9 5/8 in.,
12 salad plates, diam. 8 3/8 in.;
2 oval stands, width 8 1/8 in.;
a circular footed tureen, cover and stand, width of stand 13 1/2 in.;
an oval tureen, cover and stand, width of stand 14 in.,
a footed circular bowl, width 9 7/8 in.;
a footed comport, width 8 3/4 in.;
1 fish dish, width 26 1/4 in.;
3 large oval dishes in two size, width of largest 16 5/8 in.,
and 12 demitasse cups and saucers
printed GINORI marks in green, DECORAZIONE ESEGUITA DA RICHARD GINORI marks in red, stenciled 1026 in iron-red. 86 pieces.
The title Khedivé was used by the leaders of Egypt between 1867 to 1914. During this period Egypt was nominally a part of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and functioned as a sovereignty until 1914.
In 1873 Isma'il Pasha (1830-1895) of Egypt, Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, commissioned the Ginori porcelain factory at Doccia, to produce an immense dinner service in the neo-Egyptian taste, celebrating the glories of the country. The service comprised 4,800 pieces and was to be used at his palace in Giza and due to its size the service took over two years to finish. It was designed by Gaetano Lodi, who travelled to Cairo in 1872 to meet with the Khedive and to make preparatory design studies. The decoration was accomplished by Ginori's painter’s Leopoldo Nincheri and Lorenzo Becheron and the forms were designed by sculptor and ceramicist Jafet Torelli.
The service is discussed at length by Professor Patrizia Piacentini in her paper, ‘L’Egitto di Gaetano Lodi e il servito del Khedivè in Porcellana Ginori’, Amici di Doccia, Quaderni V., 2011, pp. 88-101, where the author illustrates many of Lodi’s original watercolour designs, now in a private collection.
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