Details
lithographic transfer printed and hand-painted glazed porcelain
814 in. (21 cm.) diameter
each black stenciled mark CITTÀ DI CARTE, FORNASETTI MILANO MADE IN ITALY and numbered 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9; four plates additionally with green stamped porcelain manufacturer's mark and various painter's marks
Literature
P. Mauriès, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, London, 1991 210-213.
B. Fornasetti, ed., Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, pp. 4-5, 451, 610-611 (for illustrations of the Città di carte).
G. Curzio, Piero Fornasetti: Cento anni di follia pratica/ One Hundred Years of Practical Madness, Mantua, 2013, pp. 58-59 (for an illustration of the Città di carte).
P. Mauriès, Piero Fornasetti: La Folie Pratique, Paris, 2015 pp. 82-83, 248-249 (for illustrations of the Città di carte).
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