Italian, Doccia factory, circa 1780

each finely painted in enamels, perhaps by G. B. Fanciullaci, with a single figure in a waterside landscape within a blue roundel, the corners with quarter-roundels of laurel and seeded dot ornament

A rare pair of Doccia Ginori factory tiles, circa 1780 One with a corner restored and sprayed over.
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These rare tiles, called ambrogette in the factory lists, were intended for fireplaces or free-standing stoves. The painting here, of exceptionally high quality, may be the work of Giovanni Battista Fanciullacci, the factory's most accomplished painter, who was usually reserved for painting on porcelain. A group of four similar tiles was sold at Sotheby's Florence, 19th October 1970, lot 143.

RELATED LITERATURE
L. Ginori Lisci, G. Liverani, 'Maioliche settecentesche della manifattura Ginori', Faenza, XLI no. 4, 1955, pp. 77-89; L. Ginori Lisci, La Porcellana di Doccia, Florence, 1963