Plateau
1877 (made)
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| Place of origin |
During the 1870s the Museum acquired a group of ceramics to represent the skills of relatively less well-known factories in Italy in centres like Cortona, Gubbio and Florence. Such potteries made close imitations very much in the same spirit as the 15th and 16th century originals which were their inspiration. It was often described as 'old maiolica ware'. The fashion for this type of 'historicism' was widespread across western Europe and in Britain.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Plateau, earthenware painted in colours, made by G Fanucchi pottery, Florence, Italy, 1877 |
| Physical description | Plateau, painted in colours with panels of grotesques surrounding a square tablet with a monkey (possibly a baboon). |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'G Fanucchi 1877' |
| Object history | Bought from the art dealer William Campbell Spence, Florence in 1877. William Campbell Spence (1849-1927 living at 6, Via Micheli, Florence, Italy) was the son of William Blundell Spence (1814-1900) a painter, art collector and dealer. |
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| Summary | During the 1870s the Museum acquired a group of ceramics to represent the skills of relatively less well-known factories in Italy in centres like Cortona, Gubbio and Florence. Such potteries made close imitations very much in the same spirit as the 15th and 16th century originals which were their inspiration. It was often described as 'old maiolica ware'. The fashion for this type of 'historicism' was widespread across western Europe and in Britain. |
| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
p. 150, Cat. 133
133. Plate with grotesque decorations and baboon inside a frame
circa 1877
Giuseppe Fanucchi
maiolica painted in colours
diam. 33,6 cm
G. Fanucchi 1877
inv. 700-1877
purchase: William Campbell Spence, £ 2.10.0
Bibliography: RUCELLAI 2005a, p. 28, fig. 5
Giuseppe Fanucchi was active at Doccia starting in 1872 as a painter of artistic maiolica (AMDarm. 2, palch. 1, cart. 12, n. 212). These two plates are the only ones that we know of that were signed by Fanucchi and demonstrate his activity as an independent artist. Along with the three plates by Torelli (cat. 698,703,711) they show how the success of the revival of Renaissance maiolica had reached a level such as to encourage the foundation of new factories specializing in this type of ceramics and able to challenge the means and the prestige of Ginori. The two plates are of excellent quality; the one with the monkey inside a frame also shows a certain originality in the composition with respect to the Renaissance models and the intention to create new iconographical subjects. For other plates sold by the art dealer W.C. Spence in Florence, see cat. 127-132.
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 700-1877 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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