Lot 76
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'IL CIRCO', A POLYCHROME PORCELAIN DINNER SERVICE
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
'IL CIRCO', A POLYCHROME PORCELAIN DINNER SERVICE

GIO PONTI FOR RICHARD GINORI, CIRCA 1928

Details
'IL CIRCO', A POLYCHROME PORCELAIN DINNER SERVICE
Gio Ponti for Richard Ginori, circa 1928
The dinner service comprising 12 soup bowls, 12 soup underplates, 12 butter plates, 12 dinner plates, 12 dessert plates, 12 teacups, 13 saucers, 2 vegetable bowls, 1 small oval serving dish, 1 large oval serving dish, 1 large round platter, and 1 gravyboat, variously decorated with circus performers and animals, painted in black, gray, magenta, tan, blue and green, all with firm's mark RICHARD-GINORI PITTORIA DI DOCCIA and RICHARD GINORI/MADE IN ITALY, all with various numbers and letters, some printed, enameled and impressed
12 1/8in. (30.7cm.) diameter of round platter (91)

Lot Essay

cf. Societa Ceramica Richard Ginori, Ceramiche Moderne D'Arte Richard Ginori, pp. 48-49 and Fulvio M. Rosso, Per virtù del fuoco Uomini e ceramiche del Novecento italiano, 1983, p. 134 for illustrations of footed bowls in "The Circus" pattern.