Cruet Stand
ca. 1780 - 1790 (made)
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Cruet stand of tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. In the form of two conjoined straight-sided cups of wavy outline. Between them is a foliate scrolled upright handle of ogee outline, picked out in crimson and blue. Painted outside with small sprays of flowers in crimson, green, yellow and blue.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. |
| Brief description | Cruet stand of tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain, probably Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1780-1790 |
| Physical description | Cruet stand of tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. In the form of two conjoined straight-sided cups of wavy outline. Between them is a foliate scrolled upright handle of ogee outline, picked out in crimson and blue. Painted outside with small sprays of flowers in crimson, green, yellow and blue. |
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| Gallery label | Cruet Stand
Tin-glazed porcelain
ITALY (PROBABLY DOCCIA); about 1780
Gift of Lt.-Col. K. Dingwall D.S.O.
C.14-1915
(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 |
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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
p. 103, Cat. 89
89. Cruet stand
circa 1780-1790
hard-paste porcelain painted in colours
h 16,5 cm; width 18,5 cm
no mark
inv. C.14-1915
gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art
Fund
This vinegar and oil cruet decorated with sprays of flowers “al mazzetto” (see cat. 90), has a shape that is still typically 18th-century with the handle painted in shades of red and blue attached by two curling volutes, while the quality of the flowers already expresses a certain stylistic repetition, suggesting a date between 1780 and 1790. For a similar cruet, see G. Turchi, in LUCCA E LE PORCELLANE 2001, p. 154, cat. 95.
L.F.M.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.14-1915 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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