a coffee cup with saucer with gilt background decorated with playing cards, French manufacture, marked Paris “BS ? ”; a cup with saucer with gilt profiles decorated with medallion with male bust, band with flowers and leaves, curl handle, the cup with Ginori mark and inscribed on the bottom inside “Souvenez Vous di Diana”, the plate centered by crowned monogram “FBM,”; a cup with wavy handle with gilt-profiled plate decorated with genre scene and polychrome floral motifs, the cup inscribed below the base “Costume of Rivisondoli Giovine in Naples,” Giovine manufacture, Naples, c. 1830 (chipping, wear)
Specialist Notes
The fashion for cup of large size and slanted shape at the top came from Vienna and Paris.They were painted with very elegant decorations and constituted unique pieces. Several such cups are preserved in the museum and warehouse of the Pitti Palace, Florence (for comparison see: L. Ginori Lisci, La porcellana di Doccia, 1963, tav. LXIX)
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