COUPLE OF TRAYS, SHOWER, GINORI MANUFACTURE, 1740-1745 CIRCA in painted majolica in blue monochrome of circular shape with shallow cavetto, oblique and short brim, rounded rim. In the centre of the cavetto there is an aristocratic emblem surmounted by a marquis crown topped by four florins alternating with twelve pearls arranged three by three in four pyramidal groups; under the crown there is a framed coat of arms (on the first and fourth interlocked in a band with a star and a lion; on the second and third counterpart framed with an eight-pointed star and a six-pointed mountain); the emblem is surrounded by cartouche with ribbons and garlands. This is the decoration called "with noble coats of arms"; diam. cm 32,5, h. cm 4 A PAIR OF GINORI TRAYS, DOCCIA, CIRCA 1740-1745 Comparative bibliography G. Turchi (ed.), Le maioliche di Doccia, Pisa 2007, p. 34, p. 69 n. 20 (with Ginori-Ricasoli coat of arms) "RTF to HTML .Net".