Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume VI: Online Auction

A Doccia (Ginori) maiolica trefoil bowl, circa 1890

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October 17, 01:21 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A Doccia (Ginori) maiolica trefoil bowl, circa 1890

the interior with Diana and the sleeping Endymion with a nymph among ruins, below a border of grotteschi, the blue-ground exterior moulded with leafy branches, the handles formed as gaping beasts

blue crowned Ginori mark and numerals

height 8⅞in.; width 16½in.; 22,5 cm; 41,8 cm.

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Vase en faience Doccia (Ginori), vers 1890

marque Ginori et chiffres couronnés de bleu

height 8⅞in.; width 16½in.; 22,5 cm; 41,8 cm.

Christie's New York, 22 November 2011, lot 105.

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Christie's New York, 22 novembre 2011, lot 105.

For an image of the Ginori stand at the Espozione Nazionale, Milan in 1881 see "Im Sinne der Alten: Italienische Majolika des Historismus, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, 1995, p. 11 which includes two similar basins and pp. 38-9, no. 10 for a related from of "Bacino trilobato". The shape is derived from a 16th century prototype, for a similar form see T. Wilson & C. Maritano, 'L'Italia del Rinascimento Lo slendore della maiolica', exhibition catalogue, Turin, 2019, p, 37, no. 16.