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The Carlo Colli Collection of Doccia Porcelain: Part II
Lot 166
Deux plats de confiserie en porcelaine de Doccia, vers 1750-55
Two Doccia sweetmeat dishes, circa 1750-55
Two Doccia sweetmeat dishes, circa 1750-55
30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€1,500 - €2,000
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Deux plats de confiserie en porcelaine de Doccia, vers 1750-55
Two Doccia sweetmeat dishes, circa 1750-55
Two Doccia sweetmeat dishes, circa 1750-55
The larger dish missing the upper portion, consisting of four large scallop shells radiating outwards from a raised central assemblage of smaller shells and C-scrolls, the raised dish modelled as Triton and a mermaid holding up a large shell-shaped salt or bonbon dish painted in pastel hues of yellow, pink and blue, on a rockwork base, the flat dish: 23.8cm long; the raised dish: 14.7cm high, (2)
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Literature
Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, pp. 222-223 and 402-403, cats. 25 and 90
The salt, or bonbon dish, is listed in 1757 as "Piccolo Sortu [sic], in cui sono due Tritoni [Small surtout, with two Tritons]" (AGL Firenze, I, 2, f.37, Fabbrica delle Porcellane di Doccia. Scritture e Documenti, fasc. 7, p. 15).
The five holes on the larger dish - one at each corner of the large scallop shells and another directly in the centre of the raised centre - confirm the absence of the upper portion.
An identical, undecorated bonbon dish as well as a slightly different sweetmeat dish are both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (invs. 06.385 and 06.379a, b).