Piero Fornasetti Small Porcelain Ashtray

Piero Fornasetti Small Porcelain Ashtray.

The Day- Jewish Journal, 1961.

Written in Yiddish.

The oval small dish is designed with a newspaper banner and part of a front page. It is titled at the top "The Day- Jewish Journal" and below, a globe with torches to either side emanating light and the words, "The National Jewish Daily" and below that "New York Thursday February 2, 1961".  

The text below that is in Yiddish in Hebrew script.  It comes is a small cardboard box which is most likely the original box.

Dimensions: 5 1/2 inches x 4 inches x 1/4 inches high.

Mark: Black stamp in the form of a black seal with the hand and pen in White and Piero Fornasetti Milan, Italy around the top and bottom.

Der Tog, Morgen Zshurnal = the Day-Jewish Journal (New York, N.Y.)  was a New York Yiddish-language newspaper which published between 1914-1971.

Interestingly, Der Tog was the first Yiddish newspaper to include female journalists on the editorial staff. Adella Kean-Sametkin wrote about women's issues, and Dr. Ida Badanes, about health matters. The popular fiction writer Sarah B. Smith was also a regular contributor over many years.

Before making her mark as a poet, Anna Margolin (pseudonym of Rosa Lebensboym) distinguished herself as a reporter and editor for Der Tog. She contributed a column, "In der froyen velt" (In the women's world), under her actual name, and articles about women's issues under various pseudonyms, including Clara Levin.

Reference:  This shape is referred to by Barnaba Fornasetti as a basin-shaped ashtray.  A series of these were created with different newspapers from around the world.- See Fornasetti- The Complete Universe, Banaba Fornasetti, Page 573, Fig 56 for this example top left.

This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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