Flower pot - Porcelain
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Porcelain cachepot painted with cherub scenes, in the unusual truncated square-pyramid form with four solid angular plinth feet and offset gilded side handles, with a red-bordeaux border and gilt accents, dating to the 1950s and made in Italy, 20 cm high and 21 cm wide/deep, in good condition with minor signs of age wear.
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Porcelain cachepot painted with scenes of putti.
Unusual cachepot of truncated pyramid shape with a square base, supported by four solid angular feet on a stylized plinth. The body is characterized by two side handles of a passing rectangular geometric shape, entirely covered in bright gilding.
The structural decorative apparatus plays on the chromatic contrast between the whiteness of the porcelain and a thick burgundy (or vinaccia) border that outlines the vertical edges, the feet, and the upper and lower moldings; the band beneath the rim and the base socle are decorated with an impressed motif of geometric beading highlighted in solid gold. On the four main faces there are charming genre scenes of allegorical nature, hand-painted with polychrome enamels in delicate tones, featuring children and putti set in naturalistic contexts: on the front, two children are caught in the act of gathering fruits from a basket overturned on the ground, while on the remaining sides one observes pairs of children in motion or captured in tender poses among shrubs and flowering branches.
At the back of the base, the object bears a cursive apocryphal or workshop signature Baglia / Milano / 7, traced with a brush in brown underglaze.
Porcelain cachepot painted with scenes of putti.
Unusual cachepot of truncated pyramid shape with a square base, supported by four solid angular feet on a stylized plinth. The body is characterized by two side handles of a passing rectangular geometric shape, entirely covered in bright gilding.
The structural decorative apparatus plays on the chromatic contrast between the whiteness of the porcelain and a thick burgundy (or vinaccia) border that outlines the vertical edges, the feet, and the upper and lower moldings; the band beneath the rim and the base socle are decorated with an impressed motif of geometric beading highlighted in solid gold. On the four main faces there are charming genre scenes of allegorical nature, hand-painted with polychrome enamels in delicate tones, featuring children and putti set in naturalistic contexts: on the front, two children are caught in the act of gathering fruits from a basket overturned on the ground, while on the remaining sides one observes pairs of children in motion or captured in tender poses among shrubs and flowering branches.
At the back of the base, the object bears a cursive apocryphal or workshop signature Baglia / Milano / 7, traced with a brush in brown underglaze.
Details
Era
1900-2000
Number of objects
1
Country of origin
Italy
Material
Porcelain
Condition
Good condition - used with small signs of ageing
Height
20 cm
Width
21 cm
Depth
21 cm
Estimated period
1950-1960
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