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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品 In the past, the emblem was attributed to the Caldeira Family,
particularly the emblem given to Andrè Caldeira in 1599, but today,
44 thanks to some documents owned by the descendants of Ginori
A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL ‘GINORI’ DISH family, it is attributed to the famous Florentine family. The present lot
Circa 1698 comes from one of three services known in family records as the Ginori
Beautifully painted in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue, featuring the coat- servito and were ordered through Portuguese traders by the Florentine
of-arms of the Italian Ginori family in the centre, surrounded by two Lorenzo Ginori (1647-1710), who had settled in Lisbon. He started a
bands of scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers. merchant bank in 1688 and shortly thereafter established an import-
28cm (11in) diam. export office with branches in several ports in Spain and Flanders as
well as Marseilles and elsewhere in Europe; he also had branches in
£4,000 - 6,000 Asia and the Americas. In 1676 he was appointed Consul for the state
CNY35,000 - 53,000 of Tuscany.

The service arrived in Italy from Goa on March 31, 1699, the year he
約1698年 青花「基諾利」紋章盤 married Anna Maria, daughter of Senator Arrigo Minerbetti. Ginori’s son,
Carlo Andrea (1702-1757), founded the Manifattura Ginori in Doccia,
Provenance: an Italian private collection, and thence by descent Italy, in 1735, which continues to produce ceramics to this day.

來源：意大利私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今 See a very similar blue and white armorial dish with the arms of the Ginori
family, illustrated by W.R.Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics
from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2012, p.357, no.189.

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