Deux plats de confiserie en porcelaine de Doccia, vers 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) Footnotes: 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). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing