Covered Dish
Manufacturer
Societe Richard-Ginori
Artist
Gio Ponti
(Italian, 1891-1979)
CultureItalian
Date1925
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions10 1/2 × 8 7/8 × 5 11/16 in. (26.7 × 22.5 × 14.4 cm)
InscribedOn bottom: "Richard-Ginori/Pittoria/Di Doccia/1926.Ricard/Ginori/26 + 4. Omaggio/Agil/Snob".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number87.58
Not on view
DescriptionOval fluted bowl with a beaded foot in pastel green and gold. The bowl is white. A deep rose band is around the base. Bowl has a rim chip. The cover is decorated in the same colors with a male and female dancer.Label TextCovered Dish Italian, 1925 Porcelain This dish was designed by Gio Ponti for the Societe Richard-Ginori, Doccia. Ponti was one of the firm's youngest and most important designers. He developed a style that was both Art Deco and Fascist. The Fascist style prevailed in Italy from the 1920s to the early 1940s. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 87.58 a & b Exhibition History“The Jazz Age: Art and Decoration in 1920s America,” Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, April 9 – August 20, 2017; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, September 23, 2017 – January 14, 2018.Published ReferencesKatherine Morrison McClinton, ART DECO A GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS, (Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.: New York, 1972), p. 113, illus. Rappoport Genral Expos. Int. Des Arts Decoratifs 1925. Sarah D. Coffine and Stephen Harris, _The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s_, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017): p. 69, fig. 98.
