CAFFETTIERA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1745 CIRCA in porcelain, of pyriform shape with elongated neck and tapered, moulded foot, following a model taken from silverware. The handle is low and curved, the pourer ends in the shape of a serpent's head with an open spout, and is connected to the body by a wavy bracket; the lid is domed, with a restoration knob. The decoration in cobalt blue "allo stampino" affects the body of the object with a composition of florets around a tall central branch. The decoration on the lid is consistent; h. cm 33.5, max. width cm 20.8, diam. cm 16.3 A GINORI COFFEE POT, DOCCIA, CIRCA 1745 Bibliography for comparison L. Ginori Lisci, La porcellana di Doccia, Milano 1963, p. 41, table XX "RTF to HTML .Net".

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