CACCINA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1760-1770 in polychrome painted porcelain, depicting a lion fighting with a leopard. These sculptures, produced in the factory since Foggini's time and commonly referred to as caccine, were initially used as knobs for cistes or soup tureens, and later became table decorations. We have a description of them directly from the inventories of the factory, where one of the ten models listed reads "Tiger and Lion". The "caccina" has a precise comparison in an exemplar kept at the Gianetti Museum in Saronno; h. 7,5 cm A GINORI GROUP OF "CACCINA" (A LION AND A LEOPARD FIGHTING), DOCCIA, 1760-1770 Bibliography for comparison A. Biancalana, Porcellane e maioliche a Doccia. La fabbrica dei Marchesi Ginori. I primi cento anni, Florence 2009, pp. 88-89 "RTF to HTML .Net".

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