Ginori 1735 Volière Tortora Flat Dessert Plate
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The Ginori 1735 Volière Tortora Flat Dessert Plate pairs a soft dove grey with a gold floral motif. Tortora means turtle dove in Italian, and Ginori sets one of two birds at the center of each plate: the Padda, a Java sparrow, or the Coucou Didrie, a didric cuckoo. Together they make a gentle, mixed set.
Each dessert plate is made in fine porcelain at Manifattura Ginori, just outside Florence, in the classic Impero shape. The dove grey is applied in overglaze, and the floral motif is traced in pure gold by hand.
Volière means aviary in French, and the collection began with a set of nineteenth-century bird sketches found in the Ginori 1735 archives. Set among warm florals and gold, the birds are made to be mixed, so a table with several of them feels collected rather than matched. Ginori 1735, founded near Florence in 1735, is one of Europe’s oldest porcelain makers.
