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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

1745 (made)
Artist/Maker
Doccia Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Doccia (made)

Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with blue enamel. Circular, and the rim is reeded and divided into six lobes separated by slight convex mouldings. In the middle is a rose. Round the edge of the rim is a narrow band of trellis diaper with four reserved panels, each containing two conventional plum blossoms.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with blue enamel and moulded
Hard Paste Porcelain
Painted
Moulded
Brief description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, 1745
Physical description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with blue enamel. Circular, and the rim is reeded and divided into six lobes separated by slight convex mouldings. In the middle is a rose. Round the edge of the rim is a narrow band of trellis diaper with four reserved panels, each containing two conventional plum blossoms.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.8cm
Gallery label
Plate Porcelain ITALY (DOCCIA); 1740-1745 Gift of Lt.-Col. K. Dingwall D.S.O. C.514-1914 (Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)(ca. 1995)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Roses
Diaper
Bibliographic references
  • Mallet, J.V.G.. Transfer printing in Italy and England. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 2011, vol. 22, pp. 89-115. Illustrated plate 29, 'Plate, hard-paste porcelain hand-painted in underglaze-blue in a style imitating that of prints, with a dog-rose. Doccia, Ginori factory, c 1747-61.'
  • 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. 49, Cat. 24 24. Circular dish with a “thorny rose” circa 1745 hard-paste porcelain painted in monochrome blue underglaze diam. 24,5 cm no mark inv. C.514-1914 gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art Fund This round dish, probably a fruit bowl, has a raised rounded edge. The decorative motif, which is called the “thorny rose” or “dog rose” is inspired by oriental models in monochrome underglaze blue which in some rare instances may have the addition of coloured insects (A. Biancalana, in LA MANIFATTURA TOSCANA DEI GINORI 1998, p. 64- 65, fig. 36-38; A. Biancalana, in LUCCA E LE PORCELLANE 2001, cat. 63; CASPRINI 2000, p. 179-180). The decoration is mentioned for the first time presumibly in 1747 when it is referred to as “with a rose” in a price list, the Tariffa delle Porcellane Pure, that is, for plain white porcelain and the Tariffa delle Porcellane dipinte for decorated porcelain (AGL, XV, 2, f. 138, Manifattura di Doccia. Documenti vari, c. 484). In the inventory that was drawn up at Doccia in 1757 after the death of Marquis Carlo Ginori the motif was defined as “alla rosa blù” (with a blue rose) or “alla rosa canina” (with a dog rose, AGL, I, 2, f. 37, Fabbrica delle Porcellane di Doccia. Scritture e Documenti, fasc. 6). After that year we find no further trace of this type of decoration except on a few pieces of masso bastardo and, consequently, after 1761, which were perhaps made as replacements (A. Biancalana, in LA MANIFATTURA TOSCANA DEI GINORI 1998, p. 126-127, fig. 38). This type of decoration with a single blue rose in the centre was made not only at Doccia but also at other Italian factories like Casali and Callegari in Pesaro (BISCONTINI UGOLINI 1986, p. 82) and Antonibon in Bassano (R. Ausenda, in LA CERAMICA DEGLI ANTONIBON 1990, cat. 10-12). A.B. Bibliography: LANE 1954, plate 45B; MALLET 2011, plate 29; MALLET 2013, p. 25, fig. 29
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.514-1914

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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