Carlo Ginori, 1st Marquess of Riparbella and Cecina

Marchese Carlo Ginori (1702–1757) was an Italian politician of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the founder of the Doccia porcelain factory in Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, Italy. He pioneered the development of porcelain production, contemporary with Meissen, in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Ginori's porcelain was collected by Medicis and most of the nobility of Europe. Napoleon's wife, Marie Louise of Austria, ordered an enormous service set that survives to this day.