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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Sugar Bowl and Cover

ca. 1790-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste tin-glaze porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with cherries, strawberries, flowers and fruit. Borders with a band of blue feathery painting under the glaze and with a gilt band.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Sugar Bowl
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste tin-glaze porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1790-1800.
Physical description
Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste tin-glaze porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with cherries, strawberries, flowers and fruit. Borders with a band of blue feathery painting under the glaze and with a gilt band.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm
Gallery label
Sugar Bowl and Cover Porcelain ITALY (DOCCIA); about 1770-1780 Gift of The Marchese Leonardo Ginori Lisci in memory of Arthur Lane C.112&A-1965 (Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)(ca. 1995)
Credit line
Given by The Marchese Leonardo Ginori Lisci, in memory of Arthur Lane
Subjects depicted
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. 93-94, Cat. 77 77. Sugar bowl and cover decorated with fruit and flowers circa 1790-1800 hard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze painted in colours and gold h 11,4 cm no mark inv. C.112&A-1965 gift: Marquis Leonardo Ginori Lisci in memory of Arthur Lane A four-lobed sugar bowl decorated “a frutta e fiori sparsi” (scattered fruit and flowers) painted in colours and gold. The knob of the cover is in the shape of a flower. This type of decoration was typical of Ginori and was used on complete tea and coffee sets and dinner services from the last quarter of the 18th century to the first quarter of the 19th century. The term “scattered fruit and flowers” was first used in an inventory dated 1780 (AGL, I, 2, f. 37, Fabbrica delle Porcellane di Doccia. Scritture e Documenti, fasc. 20). It is particularly interesting to note that the sugar bowl was given to the museum by Marquis Leonardo Ginori Lisci in memory of Arthur Lane. A.B. Bibliography: GINORI LISCI 1963, fig. 57
Collection
Accession number
C.112&A-1965

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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