A Doccia armorial plate from the Marana-Isola service, Ginori manufactory, circa 1745-1750

boldly painted in enamels with the conjoined arms of Marana-Isola in the centre encircled with flowers and lush foliage, the rim with an iron-red and green border of trellis and foliage with small purple flowerheads, the reverse with purple flowering branches

rim chip restored, sprayed from 12 o'clock to 7 o'clock
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This dish belongs to a service documented by the Ginori correspondence as executed around 1750, for the Genovese family Marana-Isola. From the documents we learn that the service was conceived by Carlo Ginori as a gift to his friend the Marchesa Laura Isola who was very grateful to him and wrote on October 30, 1750: "the service with the arms was plentiful as to pieces and very fine". The decoration of the Marana-Isola service was inspired by the ornaments painted in the porcelain of the Du Paquier manufactory in Vienna. Most of the pieces of the service are still owned by the Marana-Falconi family.
Among the most known pieces in the Italian and International Museums:

A coffee pot, Museo Duca di Martina di Napoli (Inv. 1987) ; A soup tureen, Museo di Villa Cagnola.,Gazzada (Inv.326) ; A soup tureen, Museo Civico di Torino (Inv. 3034 C) ; A dish, Kunstgewerbe Museum di Colonia (Inv E 3711) ; Two dishes, Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst di Vienna (Inv. Ke 6135; Inv. Ke 7905) ; A dish, Museum fuer Kunsthandwerk di Francoforte (Inv. 6327) ; Three dishes, Museo dell'Hermitage di San Pietroburgo (Inv. 25605, 25606, 25707) ; A dish, Wurttembergisches Landesmuseum di Stoccarda (Inv. 10.428) ; A dish, Musèe des Arts Decoratifs di Parigi (Inv.D.10824) ; Four dishes of the Isola Marana service, were sold by Sotheby's Milan, La collezione Questa, 21 March 2005, Lots 284-287 ; Another three were sold in Sotheby's Milan, 20-21 December, 2005, Lots 342-344.