We went to Amsterdam to decide on the tiles for our bathroom and took our soap dish with us so we could colour match the tiles. The sales man (in his late fifties) was quite impressed with it and said he used to sell those forty years ago and that they were quite expensive back then. The name of the (according to him, no longer existing) manufacturer was Richard-Ginori. Time for a Google search... This is what I found:
It was in 1753 that the Florentine Marquis, Carlo Ginori, founded a porcelain factory on his estate in Doccia near Florence, making Ginori the oldest European factory. Having maintained continuous production through the Napoleonic Wars and two World Wars, Ginori moved to their current location at Sesto Fiorentino in 1949, where the designers continue to draw inspiration from the surrounding Tuscan countryside. Marchese Carlo Ginori began producing porcelain at Doccia in 1735; after five generations the family firm merged with the Milanese company Richard in 1896. Ginori porcelain was collected by the Medicis and most of the nobility of Europe — Napoleon's wife, Marie Louise of Austria, ordered an enormous dinner set that survives to this day.
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