CAFFETTIERA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1755 in porcelain painted in polychrome and gold. This important coffeepot, even though it has no lid, is a rare example of the decoration called "children's games" in the manufactory's inventories, datable to between the end of the 1740s and the 1750s. The coffee pot has the classic morphology of a ribbed pyriform body with an expanded and moulded foot; the spout, which starts from the widest point, rises and bears a rare snake-head shaped spout, connected to the body by a shaped bracket; the handle, of an important shape, is carried high and descends sinuously, shaped according to models taken from silverware. The coffee pot shows a decoration with a play of putti in a naturalistic landscape with rocks, trees, bushes and farmhouses, enclosed in two metopes framed by pilasters with an articulated gilded motif. The ornamentation is inspired by engravings by Jacques Stella (1596-1657) La fossette aux noyaux and La toupie. The remaining ribs bear a naturalistic floral motif on a yellow background, while the pourer is decorated with touches of red, blue and green that make the serpent's head look natural. Already in the collection of the Luzzato brothers in Milan with a not pertinent lid, it boasts numerous publications. The coffee pot can be found in the tea service of the Metropolitan museum in New York and in the well-known potpourri vase of Palazzo Madama in Turin (Inv. 3031/C); h. cm 22,5, max. width cm 17,7, diam. cm 13,5 A GINORI COFFEE POT, DOCCIA, 1755 Bibliography G. Morazzoni, Le porcellane italiane, Milan 1960, vol. II, table XI Comparative bibliography L. Mallé, Palazzo Madama in Torino. Le Collexioni, Turin 1970, vol. II, p. 290; C. Lehner-Jobst, A. d'Agliano (eds.), Liechtenstein Museum Vienna. Baroque luxury porcelain. The Manufactories of Du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence, Munich 2005, pp. p.348-349 n. 192 "RTF to HTML .Net".