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Marchese Carlo Ginori (1702–1757), Italian politician and founder of the Doccia porcelain factory in Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, Italy. He pioneered the development of porcelain production, contemporary with Meissen, in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Ginori's porcelain was collected by Medicis and most of the nobility of Europe.
The history of the Ginori Manufactory began in Doccia, just a stone's throw away from Florence. Inspired by his passion for white gold, Marquis Carlo Andrea Ginori started a porcelain factory which was destined to become a worldwide icon of style.
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Apr 10, 2024 · History looms large at Ginori 1735. Here, in 1737, together with a master painter and kilnman from Vienna, the Marquis Carlo Andrea Ignazio Ginori, a well-travelled politician and diplomat who’d ...
Doccia porcelain, porcelain produced at a factory near Florence founded by Marchese Carlo Ginori in 1735; until 1896 the enterprise operated under the name Doccia, since then under the name Richard-Ginori. After an initial experimental period, during which he imported Chinese porcelain samples,
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Richard Ginori 1735 is Italy’s leading manufacturer of fine china tableware and artistic porcelain. On the strength of its manufacturing tradition, which dates back more than 270 years, the Group markets its products under two brand names: Richard Ginori for high-end tableware and Capodimonte for artistic porcelain.
Apr 30, 2022 · Founding Manifattura di Doccia in 1737, however, proved to be more successful; Marquis Carlo Andrea Ignazio Ginori collected more than three thousand samples of clay and minerals from across Tuscany to use for making porcelain — this became a collection he housed in his Soil Museum.
