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Vintage Piero Fornasetti Plate, Mongolfiere (hot air) Design, Number 9 in series.
1950s.
Porcelain.
The large Piero Fornasetti plate depicts a large hot air balloon with a panel describing the image - 1825/ In Paris/ Margat Rised Pickapack/ of the stag "Zephir".
Mark: Image of hot air balloon with the number 9 on its side and below Mongolfiere/Fornasetti/Milano/Made in Italy and to the right the Fornasetti hand and brush.
Reference: The name of the pattern comes from the first hot air ballooner-on 21st November, with a balloon made by two French brothers, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier. A balloon was launched from the centre of Paris and flew for a period of 20 minutes- The birth of hot air ballooning.
See Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 616, #167 for four examples from set.
Dimensions
10 inches x 3/4 inchesStock number
NY08989FThe BADA Standard
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