Lot 461
  • 461

Three Doccia pieces of the 'galletto' pattern circa 1745-60

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

comprising a sugar box and cover decorated in iron-red and gilding, a rare early milk jug with large trees and no cockerel, and a very rare sugar box and cover with decoration in black and gilding

Exhibited

(milk jug) Settecento europeo e barocco toscano nelle porcellane di Carlo Ginori a Doccia, catalogue, pl. 28; (black gilt sugar box) La Manufattura Toscana dei Ginori, Pisa, 1998, catalogue no 54.

Condition

iron-red suagr box and cover- small chip to leaf on knop jug- shallow chip to inside rim, approx 1cm. by 2mm. black and gold sugar box- one handle restored, the other chippped. Chips to finial. Some overall staining
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