Italian, Doccia Ginori factory, late 19th century

painted in high-temperature colours and in late Renaissance style with a vignette of cherubs at play on a grassy bank, flanked by exotic birds and grotesque ornament, the rim with a dark blue-ground border of masks and scrolling foliage, crowned Ginori mark and 121-720 in blue, incised letter N

A Doccia Ginori factory faience dish, late 19th century There are small flakes to the glaze on the rim at 12 o'clock and 5 o'clock.
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Giuseppe Liverani illustrates a vase with very similar decoration, which he dates to 1860-70; see Il Museo delle Porcellane di Doccia, Milan 1967, pl. CXXVII.