TUPPIERA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1760 CIRCA in porcelain, oval shaped and ribbed body with coherent lid, thick material, blued glaze with some boiling and firing defects, but which enhances the shape of the piece. The shape, taken from models of coeval silverware, rests on a flat base; the applied sockets, of circular section, imitate the shape of a small branch around which the decoration was grafted, modelled in the form of thin branches of roses and small bows in the round. The same ornamentation was repeated on the lid, surmounted by a seated child. The model was used with variants in the manufacture, and is compared to a tureen with flowering vines in the collection of Applied Arts of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, datable to 1750/55, and to one in the Museo della Manifattura; max. width 32.5 cm, max. depth 26 cm, h. 25.5 cm; complete with base in the shape of thin branches of roses and bows in the round. cm 25,5; complete with moulded wooden base, cm 5,5x26,5x21 A GINORI SOUP TUREEN, SHOWER, CIRCA 1760 Comparative Bibliography A. Mottola Molfino, L'arte della porcellana in Italia. Il Veneto e la Toscana, Milan 1976, no. 432; 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. 296-297 n. 125 "RTF to HTML .Net".