Jar
1740-1741 (made)
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Jar with cover and base, tin-glazed earthenware, Doccia, 1740-41
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Jar with cover and base, tin-glazed earthenware, Doccia, 1740-41 |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr Alfred Brown |
| Object history | Mr. Alfred Brown, ( Art Director, Societa Ceramica Richard- Ginori). |
| Production | One of a series made in the 18th century to contain samples of clay and other minerals used at the Doccia factory. The jars have been preserved since in the Doccia factory near Florence. Other examples are now in the collections of Mr. Brown and of Marchese Leonardo Ginori-Lisci (Villa di Doccia). For Doccia maiolica, see (Marchese) Leonardo Ginori-Lisci and Giuseppe Liverani, "Maioliche settecentesche della manifattura Ginori", Faenza vol. XLII, 1956, pp.19-22. Compare B.Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, No. 1274 |
| 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
p. 129, Cat. 119
Maiolica
119. Glass jar with maiolica base
and cover
1740-1741
maiolica and glass
base diam. 14,2 cm; cover diam. 11,2 cm; glass jar,
h. 14,5 cm
no mark
inv. C.12 to B-1956
gift: Mr Alfred Brown, Art Director, Società
Richard-Ginori
Immediately after founding his renowned porcelain factory at Doccia in 1737, Marquis Carlo Ginori began an intense and long-term activity of experimentation and research aimed at identifying the pigments and, above all, the clays most suitable for the manufacture of objects in maiolica and porcelain. In order to display the tangible results of this research, which continued under his heirs until at least 1866 (AMD, Catalogo delle terre eminerali),Ginori formed a collection which is called the “Museo delle Terre”, that is, the museum of minerals, which consisted of a series of cylindrical glass jars with bases and tops made of maiolica containing samples of the minerals and clays that had been collected all over the world. Besides the 178 examples of these containers that are displayed in the Museo di Doccia, there are over 1600 maiolica bases and tops and 798 glass jars still stored in the basement of the factory (MOORE VALERI 2007, p. 50-60). The organization of the collection must have begun starting in 1740; in fact, the bases and tops with their French-Dutch decorations were made mostly under the direction of Nicholas Letourneau of Nevers, who was active at the factory from October 1740 until his premature death just seven months later, in June of 1741 (GINORI LISCI, LIVERANI 1955, p. 87-89). Among the maiolica bases that are stored in the factory there are five that have the date written inside of them: one with the year 1740 and four with the year 1741. According to a receipt dated August 29th 1738 issued by the glassworks of Giovanni Battista Morandi in Florence, the glass jars were first ordered in that year and then later reordered as the collection grew (GINORI LISCI 1963, p. 29 and note 16). The vase was given by Alfred Brown, art director of Società Ceramica Richard Ginori (for another gift see cat. 26).
A.M.V.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.12 to B-1956 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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