CAFFETTIERA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1750-1755 in porcelain painted in polychrome and gold; pyriform body with tapered and moulded foot, high and wavy handle, the spout ends in the shape of a snake's head and is connected to the body by a bracket. The coffee pot, which has no lid, shows a "blue, red and gold cockerel" decoration, a rather rare variant of a much loved and requested decoration. The decoration, predominantly in blue, is based on the characteristic motif of a weeping willow tree resting on rocks, in this case of Western inspiration, and the figure of a rooster with a red crest and wings; red is used sparingly, also to paint some of the long leaves of the tree; h. cm 18,8, w. cm 18,8, d. cm 18,8. 18.8 cm, max. width 17.7 cm, diam. 11.8 cm A GINORI COFFEE POT, SHOWER, 1750-1755 Bibliography A. d'Agliano et alii (ed.), Lucca e le porcellane della Manifattura Ginori. Patrician commissions and court orders, Lucca 2001, p. 105 n. 36; A. Biancalana, Porcellane e maioliche a Doccia. La fabbrica dei Marchesi Ginori. I primi cento anni, Florence 2009, p. 163 "RTF to HTML .Net".