Sugar bowl and cup with saucer, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1760 CIRCA in porcelain painted in polychrome and gold; the sugar bowl has a quadrilobate shape, complete with lid with pear-shaped grip, raised foot with gold stripes as well as the rim, and has on its surface a lively decoration with scenes in frames, according to the typical "Saxon" decoration; the cup has a bowl shape with "Neapolitan" handle.The cup has a small bowl shape with a "Neapolitan style" handle and a round saucer, both decorated like the sugar bowl; sugar bowl h. 9,7x10,6x8,7 cm, cup h. 4,5 cm, saucer h. 4,5 cm, saucer h. 5 cm, sugar bowl h. 5 cm, sugar bowl h. 5 cm and gold decoration. cm 4,5, saucer diam. cm 12,4 A GINORI CUP AND SAUCER WITH SUGAR BOWL, DOCCIA, circa 1760 THE SASSON DECOR The decoration defined as "miniato alla sassona con oro", painted in the typical red and violet colours with gold details, is well present in the Ginori factory archives, inspired by the pictorial decorations carried out in Meissen between 1720 and 1730, and was one of the most expensive works. According to some scholars, the decoration may have been introduced into the manufactory by Anreiter, but according to the most recent studies the creation of the decoration is linked to the painter Angiolo Fiaschi. Reference bibliography A. d'Agliano, Different influences on the early painted porcelain ware of Doccia, in "The International Ceramic Fair and Seminar Catalogue", London 1996, pp. 11-13; M. Burresi (ed.), La manifattura toscana dei Ginori. Doccia 1737-1791, Pisa 1998, pp. 98-99 nn. 132-133, pp. 182-183 figs. 132-133; A. Biancalana, Johan Karl Wendelin Anreiter von Ziernfeld (1702-1747). Neues zum biographischen Hintergrund eines Tiroler Porzellanmalers von Europaisches Bedeutung, in Der Schlern, 74/200, Fasc. II, Bolzano 2000, pp. 81-92 "RTF to HTML .Net"