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Piero Fornasetti.
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astronomici Plate, #8.
1955.
Porcelain.
A Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Astronomici pattern which means Astronomics. This is a rare pattern in black and white with gold highlights.
Mark: A moon and sun within a circle with smiling faces with scattered stars and the pattern name Astronomici written across edge of circle; above right the Fornasetti hand and brush and Fornasetti.
Reference: Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Patrick Mauries, Page 220, colour illustration of the complete set of twelve, the author writes, Astronomical Plates, a set of twelve made in 1955. Fornasetti looked at astronomy in 17th century terms when it was not distinguished from astrology.
Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 614, #162 for several illustrated examples.
Dimensions
Diameter: 10 inches x 1 inch in heightStock number
NY08277-2The BADA Standard
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