LARGE TRAY, SHOWER, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1740 CIRCA in majolica painted in blue monochrome, circular in shape, deformed when drying due to its large size. The oriental-inspired decoration, based on a very detailed jar motif, has illustrious comparisons in some examples signed on the reverse AB, initials of the painter Antonio Baldassini called Cappiniere or Cabbiniere, who worked at the Doccia factory between 1740 and 1784, the only artist known in Doccia to have signed his work entirely on majolica. A plate with his full signature and initials is held in a private collection cited by Alessandro Biancalana; diam. cm 41.2, h. cm 5.4 A LARGE GINORI TRAY, DOCCIA, CIRCA 1740 Comparative bibliography G. Turchi (ed.), Le maioliche di Doccia, Pisa 2007, p. 18, p. 67 n. 4; A. Biancalana, Porcellane e maioliche a Doccia. The factory of the Marquis Ginori. I primi cento anni, Florence 2009, pp. 31-32 "RTF to HTML .Net".