TABACCHIERA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1750... Lot 135

TABACCHIERA, DOCCIA, MANIFATTURA GINORI, 1750 CIRCA in porcelain painted in polychrome, rectangular body with lid mounted in gilded metal and painted with a Bacchanal scene: drunken Bacchus seated on a barrel, surrounded by Bacchae and putti intent on mixing wine, a scene circumscribed in an elegant cartouche frame that is repeated on the body to surround tasty little scenes with playful putti in different types of landscape. Under the base, on a white background bordered by a linear frame, is painted Diana triumphant on a chariot pulled by two cupids on a cloud, while inside the lid we see Venus lying on a bed with a rich canopy and Cupid approaching with a drape to cover her. The rare snuff-box is perhaps one of those described in the inventory of 1785, probably descriptive of a previous production, where it reads "dette grandi con miniature e figure fuori, l'altra simile, ma con Venere, e Amorino dentro, legate"; cm 4,4x8,1x6,1 A GINORI SNUFF-BOX, DOCCIA, CIRCA 1750 Bibliography for comparison A. Biancalana, Porcellane e maioliche a Doccia. La fabbrica dei Marchesi Ginori. I primi cento anni, Florence 2009, pp. 168-174 "RTF to HTML .Net".