Ghislaine Howard
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Lot 79A
A Doccia soup plate from the Marana Isola service, circa 1750
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,462.50 inc. premium
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Sophie von der Goltz
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
A Doccia soup plate from the Marana Isola service, circa 1750
Decorated with the arms of Isola and Marana under a gilt crown, surrounded by a puce scrollwork frame and iron-red draping, the rim with four sprigs of Oriental flowers alternated by insects, the rim with a single brown line, 22.8cm diam.
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 that correspondence.
