SERVICE PLATE IN POLYCHROME PORCELAIN, GINORI SHOWER MANUFACTURE, CIRCA 1745-50 from a soup tureen, oval and with wavy, raised rim, decorated with primitive German flowers and insects; little wear and minor firing defects H 4 cm, L 38 cm A SHOWER PORCELAIN DISH, CIRCA 1745-1750; SLIGHTLY WORN, MINOR FIRING DEFECTS The mould and floral 'deutsche blumen' decoration of this porcelain are part of a well-known decorative type characteristic of the early years of the Tuscan factory, the best known examples being the service plates decorated with oriental figures by Jacopo Ligozzi. See among others in Aa. Vv. , La manifattura Richard-Ginori di Doccia, Milan-Rome 1988, card 2, fig. 54.