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Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Tray with Verdi's Othello Playbill from 1st Performance,
"Otello",
Circa 1960
The shaped dish was designed to …
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Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Tray with Verdi's Othello Playbill from 1st Performance,
"Otello",
Circa 1960
The shaped dish was designed to be a pin dish or an ashtray. It is in the form of the Play Bill from the first performance of the opera Othello, by Giuseppe Verdi, " Otello" on February 5th, 1887. The play bill is in Italian while on the reverse is the description is in English.
Dimensions: 6 1/2 inches wide x 5 inches deep x 1 1/4 inches high (16.51cm wide x 12.7cm deep).
Reference: See Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 575, #59, for a selection of designs in this form.
See: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otello)
Otello (Italian pronunciation: [oˈtɛllo]) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887.
It is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887.
The composer was reluctant to write anything new after the success of Aida in 1871, and he retreated into retirement. It took his Milan publisher Giulio Ricordi the next ten years, first to encourage the revision of Verdi's 1857 Simon Boccanegra by introducing Boito as librettist and then to begin the arduous process of persuading and cajoling Verdi to see Boito's completed libretto for Otello in July/August 1881. However, the process of writing the first drafts of the libretto and the years of their revision, with Verdi all along not promising anything, dragged on. It wasn't until 1884, five years after the first drafts of the libretto, that composition began, with most of the work finishing in late 1885. When it finally premiered in Milan on 5 February 1887, it proved to be a resounding success, and further stagings of Otello soon followed at leading theatres throughout Europe and America.
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- Dimensions
- 6.5ʺW × 5ʺD × 1ʺH
- Artist
- Piero Fornasetti
- Brand
- Piero Fornasetti
- Designer
- Piero Fornasetti
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- Italy
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- Good condition Good condition less
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