Fornasetti Rosenthal Plate, Themes and Variation, 1980s

Fornasetti Rosenthal Plate- Temi e Variazioni-Themes and Variation, Motiv 16.

1980s.

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain.

Wonderful rare example of the small range of plates made by Rosenthal in the 1980s from Piero Fornasetti designs.

The plate depicts the lower part of a lady's face and a necklace of faces of Lina Caveleiri.

Piero Fornasetti's most famous work is, without a doubt, his illustrations featuring the face of Lina Caveleiri, an operatic soprano. Fornasetti found her face in a 19th-century magazine, turning the black and white image into an iconic representation of his work. It was known as the "Tema e Variazioni" (theme and variation) plate series.

He said: "What inspired me to create more than 500 variations on the face of a woman? I began to make them and I never stopped".

Mark: In a black circle- Rosenthal Germany over the fornasetti hand and paint brush and below Dekor: Temi e Variazioni/ Motiv 25.

Reference: Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Patrick Mauries, page 192. Mauries writes: For Fornasetti a single product never exhausted the possibilities of an idea. He loved to let his imagination roam, finding more and more layers of meaning and association in the process. Much of his work, therefore, takes the form of variations on a theme.

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