Project for the Cataloguing of the Antique Moulds of the Ginori Factory at Doccia

Using the sophisticated digital technologies that have been recently developed, the project that we are presenting here has the objective of cataloguing a vast and varied collection of moulds acquired by the Ginori factory in Doccia. The project is organized according to two workflows and includes the creation of a system for archiving, managing and retrieving the information which is called the Doccia Digital Archive System (DDA System). The first workflow is used for the sets of moulds for which we have no information concerning the positive (archetype). For the non-invasive exploration of the moulds we used 3D scans of the inside of the mould followed by the virtual reconstruction of the figure. The second workflow deals with groups of moulds that were part of the documentary campaigns conducted in 1960-1968 and in 2009-2010.