Fornasetti Tray-Juggler With Spinning Plates, Atelier Fornasetti, Dated 2017, N 16

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Fornasetti Tray
Juggler with Spinning Plates,
Atelier Fornasetti,
Dated 2017, N 16

The black circular tray is printed with a … Read more Fornasetti Tray
Juggler with Spinning Plates,
Atelier Fornasetti,
Dated 2017, N 16

The black circular tray is printed with a pattern of Themes & Variation numbered 193. It depicts a juggler on his back with six plates spinning on sticks with one in his mouth. The plates depicts the face of Lina Cavalieri, Piero Fornasetti's muse.

Diameter: 16 inches diameter x 2 inches high

Mark: on the front at 4 o'clock FORNASETTI. MILANO/ MADE IN ITALY/ n 16/20`7

Reference:
(http://www.fornasetti.com/en/story/temavariazioni/)

The image that inspired Fornasetti to coin the title 'Tema e Variazioni', is the enigmatic face of a woman: the opera singer Lina Cavalieri.

He found that now iconic face as he leafed through a 19th-century French magazine and became fascinated. Taking her as much as a muse and as a motif, he would return to Lina Cavalieri's face again and again throughout his career. The archetypal classic female features and enigmatic expression of Lina Cavalieri became Fornasetti's most frequently used template and upon which he based more than 350 variations.

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