Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 18
A rare pair of Doccia bottle coolers from the Marana Isola service, mid 18th century
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £18,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare pair of Doccia bottle coolers from the Marana Isola service, mid 18th century
Moulded with scrollwork, shells shaded in iron-red, and an armorial shield on each side, embellished in gilding and enamels, with the arms of Isola and Marana, painted in iron-red and gilding with panels of Oriental flowers, and in blue, iron-red and gilding with flowers issuing from stylised foliage, the rims embellished in iron-red and gilding, 17cm high (restored section to one rim, restored chip to footrim) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Marchesi Francesco and Laura Marana, Genoa
From the large armorial service delivered in stages from October 1750 to the Marchesa Laura Marana Isola of Genoa and decorated with the arms of the Marchesa and her husband, Francesco Marana. This was the second of two services delivered to the Marchesi. The first service (delivered in 1749) is decorated 'a stampa', and the pieces are of much simpler form. Then, in a letter dated 3 October 1750, the Marchesa orders another service '(...) non contento d'avermi favorito l'anno scorso di un servito abbondantissimo bianco, e Turchino, à voluo anche adesso aumentarlo (...)[not content with an abundantly white and turquoise (sic) service you kindly delivered to me last year, I would like to add to it now].
The service is referred to many times in correspondence between the Marchesa and Carlo Ginori; see A. d'Agliano (ed.), Porcellane Italiane dalla Collezione Lokar (2013), no. 86, J. Kräftner (ed.), Baroque Luxury Porcelain (2006), nos. 116 and 177, and A. Biancalana, Porcellane e Maioliche a Doccia (2009), p.181ff. for excerpts from the correspondence. See Biancalana (op.cit. 181) for a covered cylindrical container from the first service.
Another bottle cooler from the service was sold together with a similar model without the arms and mounted on matching gilt-metal bases by Christie's London, 6 December 2007, lot 13.
'L'Italia non ha più da invidiare Le porcellane d'oltramonti' Teresa del Vernaccia, in a letter to Carlo Ginori, 14 September 1747.
