Gio Ponti ( Milano  1891 - Milano  1979 )

"I putti con la serpe" Double-handle jar with hoop handles. Manufacture of Richard Ginori, Doccia (Florence), 1924ca. Mold-formed majolica, hand-painted under glass, with blue background and classical ochre and black figuration. On opposite side decoration depicting ochre and black double-handle amphora. Vase form no. 969, decoration no. 236E. Inscribed under the base "Richard Ginori" with crown monogram, numerals "M969/236E" and signature "Gio Ponti". (h 23.5 cm.) (slight defects)   Provenance Private collection, Florence   Literature Gio Ponti. La collezione del Museo Richard-Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia a cura di L. F. Malenchini, M. T. Giovannini, O. Rucellai, Maretti, Firenze, 2015, pp. 188, 192-95; L. Manna, Gio Ponti. Le maioliche, Biblioteca di via Senato, Milano 2000, p. 132-135

Estimate € 5,500 - 7,000

Sold € 17,000