A Doccia porcelain blue-ground tankard and cover, circa 1780
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September 25, 05:46 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Doccia porcelain blue-ground tankard and cover, circa 1780
the blue ground painted with white and gilt scattered flower sprays between gilt foliate garland borders and puce dotted borders, with entwined double ribbon handle, the cover with flower finial
18,3 cm, 7 1/4 in. high
Enrico Questa Collection, Turin, sold Sotheby’s Milan, 21 March 2005, lot 303.
Lucca, Fondazione Centro Studi sull Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Lucca e le porcellane della Manifattura Ginori: Commissioni patrizie e ordinativi di corte, 28 July - 21 October 2001.
A. d'Agliano, et al. (ed.), Lucca e le porcellane della Manifattura Ginori: Commissioni patrizie e ordinativi di corte, exhibition catalogue, Lucca 2001, p. 160, cat. no. 102.
Since 1897, a second tankard, from the Franks Bequest has been in the British Museum, London, mus. no. AF.3226, illustrated in A. Dawson, "Unexpected Treasures - Doccia Porcelain in the British Museum", in Amici di Doccia - Quaderni III, 2009, pp. 27-28, fig. 23. That tankard, painted with puce-monochrome panels of putti, is attributed to one of the manufactory's leading artists, Giovanni Battista Fanciullacci. In her paper Dawson notes that the piece may be the example noted in the Ruolo dei Lavaranti, or workers’ ledger, which records that Fanciullacci decorated ‘un vaso di birra e altro’ on 24 September 1774.
A Doccia tankard, quite similar to the example in the British Museum, is depicted in pietra dura among other pieces of Doccia and earlier Japanese porcelains on two hardstone table tops by Antonio Cioci dating from 1785-6, both in Florence, one in the Museo dell’Opificio delle Pietre Dure, the other in the Palazzo Pitti.
