Fornasetti Porcelain Calendar Plate 2016. Number 172 of 700 Made; With Original Box

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Barnaba Fornasetti Porcelain Calendar Plate 2016.
Number 172 of 700.
With Original Box.

THe plate with a gold and white … Read more Barnaba Fornasetti Porcelain Calendar Plate 2016.
Number 172 of 700.
With Original Box.

THe plate with a gold and white ground with a repeating pseudo-crest design. To the left is a stack of books and scattered across the grpound on thr right are falling calender sheets, each with a different month. Across the center in black is the year 2016. The plate is within its original Fornasetti black and white box with a gold trip on the top of the inner section and black fpam withyin to top and bottom.

Diameter: 9 1/4 inches

According to the Fornasetti website, "The calendar plate is a distinctive Fornasetti trademark. It was born in 1968 from the "annuari", limited edition hand-printed booklets designed by Piero Fornasetti at the request of Gio Ponti in the 1940s. Each year is described by an original design and a typical Fornasetti motif: suns, moons, playing cards, owls, cats, zodiac signs etc."

From 1968 to 1988, Piero Fornasetti then created and produced the calendar plate as an annual tradition to bring in the New Year which was not sold but given as a gift from Fornasetti to friends and clients.

In 1989, his son Barnaba Fornasetti continued in his father's footsteps establishing a limited edition of 700 or 750 plates. The 2013 edition stands as a celebration of the birth of the Italian atelier's founder Piero Fornasetti, depicting a portrait of the artist himself.

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