Wine bottle cooler (one of a pair), ca. 1760–70, Italian, Florence, Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain, H. 7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm.); Diam. foot 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, Because the addition of tin to the glaze created an opaque, milky white surface, the Doccia factory began using a tin glaze in the 1760s to mask the gray color of its hard-paste porcelain body. A tin glaze was applied to these wine coolers
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Wine bottle cooler, pair, ca, 1760–70, Italian, Florence, Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain, H, 7 9/16, 19.2 cm, Diam, foot 4 7/8, 12.4, Ceramics-Porcelain, addition, tin, glaze created, opaque, milky white surface, Doccia factory, using, tin glaze, 1760s, mask, gray color, hard-paste, body, applied, wine coolers
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