Cup and saucer
- Place of origin:
- Date:
- Artist/Maker:
Ziernfeld, Carl Wendelin Anreiter von, born 1702 - died 1747 (partly?, enamelled by)
Doccia porcelain factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilded
- Museum number:
- Gallery location:
World Ceramics, room 145, case 23, shelf 3
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This beaker and saucer was made in the early years of production at Carlo Ginori's Doccia porcelain factory in Florence, Italy. Ginori was an important statesman and entrepreneur who, above all for reasons of prestige, wanted to re-establish porcelain manufacture in Italy, as none had been made there since the closure of the Vezzi factory in 1727. On the death of the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1737, Ginori, a Senator of the Florentine State, went to pay homage to the new ruler of Tuscany, Francis Stephan of Lorraine, husband of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. While in Vienna he visited the porcelain factory of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier and persuaded the painter, Karl Wendelin Anreiter and the kiln technician Giorgio delle Torri, to follow him back to Florence and work at his new factory.
This beaker and saucer is part of a documented service (probably intended for chocolate), made in 1742 with the arms of the Marchese Francesco Brignole of Genoa. The saucers have landscape panels painted in iron-red and are typical of Anreiter's work.
Physical description
Hard-paste porcelain, painted and gilded.
[Saucer] Saucer painted in red enamels with an idealised landscape including ruins and small figures in the foreground within a square cartouche, the rim with a gilded border.
[Cup] Tall beaker painted in enamels with the arms of the Brignole family, the interior and footrim entirely gilded.
Place of Origin
Italy (made)
Date
1742 (made)
Artist/maker
Ziernfeld, Carl Wendelin Anreiter von, born 1702 - died 1747 (partly?, enamelled by)
Doccia porcelain factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
[Cup] omega or 'v' in underglaze blue on base
Dimensions
Height: 7 cm cup, Diameter: 7 cm cup, Diameter: 13.3 cm saucer
Descriptive line
Tall beaker and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, painted by C. W. Anreiter with a landscape and the arms of the Brignole family of Genoa, made by the Doccia porcelain factory in Florence, Italy, 1742.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Kräftner, Johann,ed. Baroque Luxury Porcelain: The Manufacturers of Du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence , with text by Claudia Lehner-Jobst, Andreina d'Agliano and others, catalogue of the exhibition held at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, Prestel, 2005, p.335, no. 178
According to Andreina d'Agliano this beaker and saucer, no. 178 and another, no. 177, 'belonged to a service made in 1742 for Marchese Franccesco Brignole from Genoa. A letter sent to Carlo Ginori by the Genoese Republic's representative at the Tuscan court documents the delivery of the consignment.' 'The landscapes painted in the panels in iron-red are typical of Carl Wendelin Anreiter's work and can be attributed to him.'
Exhibition History
Princely Patrons and Enlightened Entrepreneurs (Liechtenstein Museum 06/11/2005-29/01/2006)
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilding
Subjects depicted
Ruins; Coats of arms
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
