POT, SHOWER, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1750 CIRCA in porcelain, ribbed globular body, the spout starts from the belly with a shaped attachment and rises high and arched; the handle, from a model derived from silverware, is curved, shaped and ribbed. The blue monochrome decoration is symmetrically distributed on the ribs and reproduces the typical motifs of the mould with vertical flowered branches. The lid, coherent but without a knob, is shaped at the base and rises like a dome, with stencil decoration. The shape, technical and stylistic characteristics of the teapot are similar to those of the first production of the manufactory; h. 17.5 cm, max. width 20.5 cm, diam. 14.3 cm A GINORI TEAPOT, DOCCIA, CIRCA 1750 Bibliography A. d'Agliano et alii (ed.), Lucca e le porcellane della Manifattura Ginori. Commissioni patrizie e ordinativi di corte, Lucca 2001, p. 92 n. 21 IL DECORO "ALLO STAMPINO" The decoration "allo stampino" is one of the main and oldest decorative styles in the early production in Doccia. The name refers more to the technique of execution, rather than the actual decoration. The technique that characterizes this production, was made by creating a motif cut out on very thin copper plates and lambskins, placed on the porcelain body and then filled with cobalt blue with a brush, initially, according to a technique called allo stampino, and later by carryover. In a letter written in 1755 by Gaspero Bruschi and Jacopo Fanciullacci to Carlo Ginori, the founder of the factory, this form of decoration is described: "Micio does the tests of the branches with flowers for the rods, and as soon as they are fired they will be sent. He will receive a book of flowers that do not look bad, to be copied in copper..." (Bastiano Buonamici, known as Micio, or Miccio, reported in the factory between 1747 and 1763). In this section dedicated to ornamentation, we will note how some recurring motifs were applied at the discretion of the decorators to form different ornaments with a great variety of solutions, depending on the morphology of the piece and its size "RTF to HTML .Net"