Cup and Saucer
ca. 1780-1800 (made)
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Cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with red enamel and gilded. Painted with fighting cocks, a tree with feather-like leaves, and rocks.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with red enamel and gilded |
| Brief description | Cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1780-1800. |
| Physical description | Cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with red enamel and gilded. Painted with fighting cocks, a tree with feather-like leaves, and rocks. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr M. Yeats Brown, CMG |
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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. 85-86, Cat.67
67. Cup and saucer decorated
with red cockerels
circa 1780-1800
hard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze decorated in
red and gold
cup h 6,5 cm; saucer diam. 13,1 cm
no mark
inv. C.676&A-1917
gift: Mr M. Yeats Brown, C.M.G.
Bibliography: LANE 1954, plate 49B;
LANE 1963, plate 112
The cups with saucers, one of which does not match (cat. 66), are decorated in red and gold with a motif that is called “a galli rossi”(red cockerels). This type of decoration of Asian origin was made in green, black, blue, red, and red and blue with or without gold highlights. The first record of the use of this decoration is in the year 1747 and refers to cockerels painted in black (AGL, XV, 2, f. 138, Manifattura di Doccia. Documenti vari, c. 484); on October 24th of the same year, the painter Ferdinando Campostrini, who was active at the factory from 1741 to 1747, is mentioned as follows: “Campostrini remade the cockerel services that had been sold” (AGL, XII, 3, f. 13, Ginori Sen. Carlo. Lettere diverse dirette al medesimo. 1747-1748, c. 90v). Later, fromat least 1759, the painters Antonio Carraresi, called “il Zoppo”, active at the factory from 1743 to 1764, and Francesco (or Franco) Pintucci, mentioned in documents from 1754 to 1784, are the artists appointed to execute the cockerel decoration (AGL,XV, 2, f. 138, Manifattura di Doccia. Documenti vari, fasc. 2). Afterwards, starting in about 1774, the decoration was executed by Giovan Battista Buonamici, active from 1747 to 1784, and Francesco Biagiotti, active from1754 to 1784 (for further information on the painters at Doccia, see BIANCALANA 2007, p. 32-59).The production lists drawn up from1780 to 1788 show that this decoration was still in use, a demonstration of its longevity. There is a difference between the coffee services where it is also executed in blue, red and gold and the tableware which were produced only in red and gold (AGL, I, 2, f. 37, Fabbrica delle Porcellane di Doccia. Scritture eDocumenti, fasc. 20). The shape of the segmented handle of the cup (cat. 66), suggests that it was made about 1770 (see also cat. 79), while the saucer, which has the impressed star mark on the back must have been made after 1790 (GINORI LISCI 1963, p. 320). The dating of the set (cat. 67) is based on the characteristics of the clay and the tapered shape of the cup which appeared in the last quarter of the 18th century.
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| Accession number | C.676&A-1917 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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