Tea Bowl and Saucer

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ManufacturerManufactured by Doccia Porcelain Manufactory(Italian, established 1735)Italian, established 1735

CultureItalian

Titles

Tea Bowl and Saucer

Datec. 1755

Made inSesto Fiorentino, Italy

MediumSoft-paste porcelain

DimensionsTea Bowl (.1): 1 3/8 × 3 3/16 in. diameter (3.5 × 8.1 cm)
Saucer (.2): 3/4 × 4 13/16 in. diameter (1.9 × 12.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, museum purchase funded by John Kotts and Reed Morian in honor of Meredith J. Long at "One Great Night in November, 2013"

Object number2014.8.1,.2

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Rienzi

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CERAMICS

Provenance[W.W. Wrner Antique, UK]; purchaed by MFAH, 2014.
Published References Andreiana d'Agliano, "Different Influences on the Early Painted Ware of Doccia," The International Ceramics Fair (London, 1998), fig. 2, pl.11. Ibid., ed, Lucca e le Porcellana della Manifattura Ginori, Commissioni Patrizie e Ordinativi de Corte. (2001), 162, no. 104 and 164, no. 107. Baroque Luxury Porcelain, The Manufacturies of the Du Paqier and Carlo Ginori in Florence (Vienna: Lichtenstein Museum, 2005), 454, no. 200. There is a Coccia plate, ca. 1745-50, with a man with a dragon on it. It is the same figure as the one on the saucer. Clare Le Corbeiller, "Doccia," The Grove Dictionary of Art (New York: Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., 1996), 57-58. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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