Ulisse Cantagalli was a master of Italian Renaissance Revival maiolica, utilizing his ceramics to deploy a shared national history and visual language in the midst of the Risorgimento. This blue and white charger recalls the maiolica of Savona, with its light blue designs sketchily rendered and heavily molded grotesques and putti in high relief. Comparisons to 17th-century Savona maiolica reveal Cantagalli’s precise and expert replication as an homage to Italian heritage.
Ulisse Cantagalli was a master of Italian Renaissance Revival maiolica, utilizing his ceramics to deploy a shared national history and visual language in the midst of the Risorgimento. This blue and white charger recalls the maiolica of Savona, with its light blue designs sketchily rendered and heavily molded grotesques and putti in high relief. Comparisons to 17th-century Savona maiolica reveal Cantagalli’s precise and expert replication as an homage to Italian heritage.
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Condition
Very good. A few minor glaze chips throughout. Two drilled holes on foot for hanging.
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References
Ballay, Ute. “19th-Century Italian Majolica.” Antiques & Collecting Magazine 9 (1996): 38-44.
Del Pellegrino, Walter and Karen. Italian Pottery Marks from Cantagalli to Fornasetti (and Everyone in Between), 1850-1950. 2005.
Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia, and Oliva Rucellai, eds. Il risorgimento della maiolica italiana: Ginori e Cantagalli (The revival of Italian maiolica). Firenze: Polistampa, 2011.
Very good. A few minor glaze chips throughout. Two drilled holes on foot for hanging.
For a detailed condition report, please contact us.
Ballay, Ute. “19th-Century Italian Majolica.” Antiques & Collecting Magazine 9 (1996): 38-44.
Del Pellegrino, Walter and Karen. Italian Pottery Marks from Cantagalli to Fornasetti (and Everyone in Between), 1850-1950. 2005.
Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia, and Oliva Rucellai, eds. Il risorgimento della maiolica italiana: Ginori e Cantagalli (The revival of Italian maiolica). Firenze: Polistampa, 2011.
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