CIRCA 1735, GIORGIO GIACINTO ROSSETTI AT LODI

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A NORTH ITALIAN FAIENCE BLUE AND WHITE CENTREPIECE
CIRCA 1735, GIORGIO GIACINTO ROSSETTI AT LODI
The centre painted with a scene of a canon bombardment of distant buildings, the shaped lambrequin rim with trelliswork panels and foliage, the base with crowned portrait medallions alternating with musical trophies and foliage, the underside inscribed Giacinto Rossetti in Lodi
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti (d. 1779) started his career as a potter at Lodi and moved thence to Turin in the early 1730s, working in both places during the early part of the decade. By 1736-7 he was based solely in Turin. He signed his pieces both in Italian and Latin and quite frequently he added the location, Lodi or Torino, and the date. A tray signed by the potter is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, museum no. C.40-1910. See Guido Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Exhibition catalogue, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1964, p. 16 for a summary of his working life and pl. 15 for a large dish decorated in a similar manner to the present lot.

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