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Gio Ponti
Unique vase, from the ‘Ermione’ series
- Estimate
- £3,000 - 5,000‡
£26,460
Lot Details
Earthenware, cobalt blue and clear glazes.
late 1920s-1930s
33 cm (12 7/8 in.) high
Produced by Richard-Ginori, San Cristoforo, Italy. Underside marked ERMIONE/S. CRISTOFORO/ITALIA/7.
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Catalogue Essay
Phillips wishes to thank Dott.ssa Oliva Rucellai for her assistance cataloguing the present lot.
The present 'Ermione' design was inspired by traditional motifs from eighteenth-century Milanese majolica. Gio Ponti applied the motif to different forms in both monochrome and polychrome variations. The unique combination of the present vase's form and the application of the 'Ermione' motif across the entire surface suggests the work might have been a prova.
The present 'Ermione' design was inspired by traditional motifs from eighteenth-century Milanese majolica. Gio Ponti applied the motif to different forms in both monochrome and polychrome variations. The unique combination of the present vase's form and the application of the 'Ermione' motif across the entire surface suggests the work might have been a prova.
Provenance
Gio Ponti
Italian | B. 1891 D. 1979Among the most prolific talents to grace twentieth-century design, Gio Ponti defied categorization. Though trained as an architect, he made major contributions to the decorative arts, designing in such disparate materials as ceramics, glass, wood and metal. A gale force of interdisciplinary creativity, Ponti embraced new materials like plastic and aluminum but employed traditional materials such as marble and wood in original, unconventional ways.In the industrial realm, he designed buildings, cars, machinery and appliances — notably, the La Cornuta espresso machine for La Pavoni — and founded the ADI (Industrial Designer Association). Among the most special works by Gio Ponti are those that he made in collaboration with master craftsmen such as the cabinetmaker Giordano Chiesa, the illustrator Piero Fornasetti and the enamellist Paolo de Poli.
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