Cup
1808-15 (made)
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Cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with two seated classical figures in manganese and round the rim with a border of classical ornament, in manganese, black, gold and white, all on a pale red ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Cup of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, 1808-15. |
| Physical description | Cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with two seated classical figures in manganese and round the rim with a border of classical ornament, in manganese, black, gold and white, all on a pale red ground. |
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| Gallery label | Cup
Porcelain
Marks: an eight-pointed star and
"E" incised, in red
ITALY (DOCCIA); about 1800
3804-1853
(Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)(ca. 1995) |
| Object history | Bandinel Collection. |
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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. 115, Cat. 106.
106. Coffee cup
1808-1815
hard-paste porcelain painted in colours
on the back a red star; incised “E”
h 4,8 cm
inv. 3804-1853
purchase: Bandinel Collection
The interest shown by Carlo Leopoldo Ginori for the decorative types called “all’Ercolana” (in the style of Herculaneum) is probably related to the arrival at Doccia of Ferdinando Ammannati (see cat. 111 112 and D’AGLIANO 2013, p. 54). In fact, these motifs were already being used at the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea in the 1780s (CARÒLA-PERROTTI 1986, p. 327-329). The decoration that appears on this coffee cup is not among those documented in Le Antichità di Ercolano esposte (GINORI LISCI 1963, p. 81 and BALLERI 2013, p. 61); it may be derived from scenes reproduced on Attic vases. We know that in 1808 Carlo Leopoldo purchased a book on Etruscan vases (BALLERI 2013, p. 61). This fact would suggest a date of between 1808 and 1815 for the cup. Despite the anomalies represented by the mark and the presence of the incised “E” neither of which are known on other Doccia pieces, the typical Ginori shape and the quality of porcelain clay would tend to confirm the attribution to Doccia that was proposed in the catalogue of the V&A Museum. The anomalies present in the cup also help to explain why it was sold in 1853 as a product of Le Nove and a year later published by Arthur Lane attributed to Buen Retiro (LANE 1954, p. 71) perhaps because the archeological subject was closer to the production of Capodimonte.
R.B.
Bibliography: LANE 1954, p. 71 |
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| Accession number | 3804-1853 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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