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GIO PONTI
AN IMPORTANT, RARE AND MONUMENTAL URN, 1925
manufactured by Richard-Ginori
white and gold porcelain
with printed signature, date and manufacturer's marks
24 1/2 in. (62.3 cm) high <P>ESTIMATE: $80,000-120,000 <P>LITERATURE
Richard-Ginori, advertisement, DOMUS, January 1929, p. 9
Roberto Papini, LE ARTI D'OGGI, Milan, ca. 1930, fig. 420
GIO PONTI ALLA MANIFATTURA DI DOCCIA, Milan, 1982, p. 40
GIO PONTI: CERAMICHE 1923-1930, LE OPERE DEL MUSEO GINORI DI DOCCIA, Florence, ca. 1983, p. 121
Gian Carlo Bojani et al., eds., GIO PONTI: CERAMICA E ARCHITETTURA, Florence, ca. 1987, p. 21 (for an illustration of the model in the 1977 exhibition "Gio Ponti alla Manifattura di Doccia della Richard-Ginori" in Faenza) <p>Ponti designed two monumental vases in white and gold porcelain. This covered urn features two dancers amidst golden foliage while the other baluster-shaped model is topped with volutes and swags. A small, covered candy dish designed concurrently featured a lid of the same theme with costumed dancers in similar golden foliage. <p>The two large vases were featured in the Richard-Ginori display at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. Of the model offered here, only two others are known. One is in the collection of the Doccia museum in Sesto Fiorentino, and the other is in a private collection.
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