Italian, Doccia Ginori factory, circa 1880

boldly painted in tones of dark blue with a broad band of grotesques, foliage and musical medallions encircling a putto seated among musical instruments against a strong iridescent yellow ground, crowned Ginori mark in blue and number 53-42

In good condition, no damage noted.
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many pottery and porcelain factories interested themselves in the exotic glazing and lustring techniques of earlier masters, from Chinese crystalline glazes to the celebrated red and gold lustred decoration of Italian maiolica. Some achieved real innovation, and few can have been as successful as the rare and rich iridescent canary yellow of the present lot. Another example is illustrated in the Ginori and Cantagalli exhibition catalogue (op. cit., no. 8) while a dish with an iridescent dark ochre border is also illustrated, no. 78.

RELATED LITERATURE
L. Fresobaldi Malenchini, O. Rucellai, The Revival of Italian Maiolca: Ginori and Cantagalli, exh. catalogue, Stibbert Museum, Florence, 2011, pp. 174-75, 282-283