Sugar Box
ca. 1745-1750
| Place of origin |
Sugar bowl with landscape scenes, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italy, ca. 1745-1750
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Brief description | Sugar bowl with landscape scenes, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italy, ca. 1745-1750 |
| Credit line | Given by John A. Tulk |
| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
pp. 91-92, Cat. 74
74. Sugar bowl and cover with landscape
scenes
circa 1745-1750
hard-paste porcelain painted in purple and red
length 14,3 cm; width 10,5 cm
inside the cover and under the base of the bowl
a red anchor
inv. C.9&A-1936
gift: John A. Tulk
Lobed oval sugar bowl decorated with “paesi rossi” in monochrome purple inside of frames outlined in red and purple. The decoration with little purple landscape scenes is typical of the Ginori factory although it is derived from similar decorations which, particularly in Vienna, had been introduced because of the general popularity of landscape painting all over Europe. At Doccia the first artist to use this type of decoration was Giuseppe Romei starting, at the latest, in 1743. Romei painted many objects with this type of decoration; in fact there are numerous receipts in his name in that year. The first of them is dated May 31st 1743 and lists “n. 14 cups painted in purple” and there are many others in the following years for other types of objects (BIANCALANA 2007, p. 39-42). It is probable that after Romei left the manufactory in 1752 (BIANCALANA 2009, p. 152), Carlo Ristori, an artist working at the factory from 1754 to1784, took his place for the execution of this type of decoration (BIANCALANA 2007, p. 48-49). The Baroque shape of the sugar bowl is quite rare at Doccia and can be dated to about 1745-1750 (for another sugar bowl that is similar, see A. d’Agliano, in BAROQUE LUXURY PORCELAIN 2005, p. 336, cat. 179). This type of decoration was used also for “objects of virtue” and, in fact, on April
5th 1760 Jacopo Fanciullacci wrote to Lorenzo Ginori: “we are sending you the snuff box you ordered painted with purple landscapes and with silver mountings” (BIANCALANA 2009, p. 173). The decoration with little landscape scenes in purple continued to be used for all of the 18th century and by the beginning of the 19th had been reduced to the most essential elements, see cat. 75 (BIANCALANA 2009, p. 152). When the sugar bowl arrived at the museum it was registered as “Venice, Cozzi factory”, on account of the red anchor mark on the cover and under the bowl.
A.B.
Bibliography: MOTTOLA MOLFINO 1976-1977,
vol. I, plate 428 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.9&A-1936 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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