Plate
ca. 1780 (made)
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Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with crimson enamel, moulded and gilded. Six-lobed and moulded in relief with scrolls. In the centre, Mercury is with a seated figure of a woman in crimson en camaïeu. Dark blue border with gilt scrollwork and shells, and three reserved panels painted with fruit in crimson.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with crimson enamel, moulded and gilded |
| Brief description | Plate of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1780. |
| Physical description | Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with crimson enamel, moulded and gilded. Six-lobed and moulded in relief with scrolls. In the centre, Mercury is with a seated figure of a woman in crimson en camaïeu. Dark blue border with gilt scrollwork and shells, and three reserved panels painted with fruit in crimson. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | An anchor (In gold, probably a later addition) |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support |
| Object history | Figures are taken from an engraving by Simonet after H. Gravelot. |
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| 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. 107-109, Cat. 97
97. Dinner plate with Mercury
circa 1780
hard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze painted in
purple, blue and gold
diam. 23, 8 cm
under a red anchor
inv. C.102-1926
gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art
Fund
Bibliography: MORAZZONI 1935,plate CXXVIIIb (as Cozzi); LANE 1954, plate 52A; LANE 1963, fig. 117
Three dinner plates with a slightly scalloped Rim painted in dark blue with three cartouches inside of which there are purple festoons of fruit on a white ground; on the rim and around the well of the plates there are volutes and borders in gold. The scenes in the centre are taken from the book Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide, translated and commented on by Antoine Banier and printed in Paris from 1767 to1771.The first scene represents the nymph Ocirroe (cat.95), daughter of the centaur Chiron who, in the original engraving, only part of which is used here, informs her father of the fate of Aesculapius (BANIER 1767-1771, vol. I, 1767, plate 32).The engraving was created by the painter Charles Eisen and the engraver Jean Massard. The shape of this plate was first used at the porcelain factory of Sèvres by the Turinese artist Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis around 1760 (I wish to thank Antoine d’Albis for confirming this). The scene in the centre of the second plate (cat. 96) represents a detail from the Birth of Adonis (BANIER 1767-1771, vol. III, 1769, plate 109) which was created by Charles Eisen and the engraver Nicolas De Launay. The scene on the third plate (cat. 97) represents Mercury who enters the room of Herse despite the opposition of her sister Aglauros (BANIER 1767-1771, vol. I, plate 37). Only part of the scene was used. It was created by the painter Hubert Francois Gravelot and the engraver Jean Baptiste Simonet. The factory mark on the back of this last plate with a red anchor was used by the Venetian factory Cozzi but it is obviously a later addition intended to attribute this plate to a factory that was better known among collectors. This anomaly is also to be seen on other Ginori porcelains in the Victoria & Albert Museum (cat. 51, 74). The decoration on the rim is derived from Sèvres models. There are only a few examples of this type of decoration from the factory at Doccia ( for example, GINORI LISCI 1963, p. 143, plate LIV; A. d’Agliano, in LUCCA E LE PORCELLANE 2001, p. 168, cat. 111; MUNGER 2007, p. 31, fig. 21).
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| Accession number | C.102-1926 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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