TEAPOT, SHOWER, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1745-1750 CIRCA in porcelain, smooth globular body with flat lid and spinning top grip; the pourer, cylindrical, rises high from the belly, while at the sides of the mouth two small ram's heads were used to support the handle, probably made of a metal core covered with woven bamboo. This is a rare example of what is defined as "with ram's head", which has always been considered rare and associated with the first experimental production of the manufacture. The decoration, which is limited to some thin plum branches vertically placed on the body of the teapot, is the one that characterizes the attempt to imitate Chinese examples, the so-called blanc de Chine, by all the European manufactures of the period. In the inventories of the manufactory this is the decoration probably defined as "white with reliefs of flowers and leaves" or perhaps "with flowers in low relief". The closest comparison comes from the teapot with pumpkin-shaped body, gooseneck mouth, ram's heads on which the handle was grafted, and decoration consistent with ours; h. cm 18, max. width cm 21, diam. cm 17,5. cm 17,5 A GINORI TEAPOT, SHOWER, CIRCA 1745-1750 Bibliography A. d'Agliano et alii (ed.), Lucca e le porcellane della Manifattura Ginori. Commissioni patrizie e ordinativi di corte, Lucca 2001, p. 78 n. 4 "RTF to HTML .Net".