Details
lithographic transfer printed glazed ceramic
comprising:
four ashtrays
five coasters
one paperweight
one table bell
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diameter, the ashtrays
each black stenciled mark FORNASETTI MILANO MADE IN ITALY; variously numbered
Literature
P. Mauriès, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, London, 1991, p. 2, 192-205, 208-209, 226 (for related examples).
B. Fitoussi, Piero Fornasetti: A Converstaion Between Philippe Starck and Barnaba Fornasetti, New York, 2005, pp. 48-49 (for related examples).
B. Fornasetti, ed., Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, pp. 556, 561, 570, 580, 588, 608, 618, 643 (for related examples).
G. Curzio, Piero Fornasetti: Cento anni di follia pratica/ One Hundred Years of Practical Madness, Mantua, 2013, pp. 118-123, 126-129 (for related examples).
P. Mauriès, Piero Fornasetti: La Folie Pratique, Paris, 2015, cover, 34, 194-207, 248-249 (for related examples).
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