18th Century Doccia Porcelain Flame Pedestal

Item Details

A late eighteenth-century Italian porcelain figure. The piece was likely produced by the Doccia factory at the transition in 1793 to a fine white hard-paste porcelain body with tin oxide added. The factory at Doccia was under the management of the Ginori family from its founding in 1735 until 1896. In the mid-eighteenth-century Ginori obtained wax casts from famous Baroque sculptures that were intended for bronzes, these were adapted for porcelain and were in use by the factory for the next fifty years. This piece depicts a pedestal with flame emanating from the top. The surface, painted with a marbleized effect and festooned with gilded berry-laden garlands separated with rams heads and cupping an oval medallion under a meander border. A bottom border of interlocking circles each having a decorative device within rings the base. The unglazed underside is marked ‘G31 707L’ and has an oblong air hole.

Condition

- fabrication to one ram horn; several small losses to the glaze on the garland and a large chip on the fabrication.

Dimensions

Item #

17WDC061-129