This type of stylised flower and scattered insects painting is copied from Meissen Holzschnitt Blumen, taken from woodblock prints by artist such as Jacob Hoefnagel, and was one of the earliest types of decoration at Doccia.[i]

Jacob Hoefnagel, after Joris Hoefnagel, 1592

Similar flowers and insects were used on the Marana-Isola service[ii] and on a particularly early coffeepot, in the National Museums and Galleries of Wales made for the Gerini and Franceschi families.[iii] 

Condition:
Three small chips and a fine crack from the rim

Provenance:
Sir Bruno Welby Bt. 

References:

D’Agliano 1996
Andreina D’Agliano, Settecento Europeo e Barocco Toscano nelle porcellane di Carlo Ginori a Doccia, Galleria Lukacs & Donath 1996

Kräftner 2005
Johann Kräftner, ed.,  Baroque Luxury Porcelain : the manufactories of Du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence, exh. cat., (Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, 2005)

[i] For a similar beaker see D’Agliano 1996, no. 20.

[ii] D’Agliano 1996, no. 45.

[iii] Kräftner 2005, no. 89a and 90.

Price:  £1,100