An extremely rare Doccia porcelain armorial beaker, circa 1750

With Antichità Nella Longari, Milan (by 1960);

Sotheby's, London, 18 November 2009, lot 458.

G. Morazzoni and S. Levy, Le Porcellane Italiane, Milan, 1960, Vol. II, tav. 178a;

L. Saul, Tazzine Italiane da Collezione, Milan, 1968, tav. LIV;

A. d'Agliano, Settecento Europeo e Barocco Toscano nelle porcellane di Carlo Ginori a Doccia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, 1996, pp. 60-61, cat. no. 43.

When the present beaker was published in 1996, d'Agliano, op. cit., p. 60, noted that a dinner service was produced for Pier Francesco Frescobaldi in around 1745, as recorded in the Ginori archives. The author continues that the unidentified armorial seen on the present beaker is of a younger son of a family of marquises, identified by the plumed helmet, and that the flags and military trophies likely point a figure with successful military campaigns. It would appear that no other pieces from the present service are recorded in the literature.