HAND-PAINTED FRATELLI FANCIULLACCI VASE (30 cm)

A nice bottle form base with a colorful hand-painted abstract décor in red-orange, goldenrod, baby-blue, and textured white on a light gray ground with black line drawn shapes from FRATELLI FANCIULLACCI, Italy FRATELLI FANCIULLACCI (THE BROS. FANCIULLACCI) had its origin in the environs of Florence, with a family whose ties to the Italian ceramics industry extend back to the 1700s. The Fancullaccis had collaborated with the world-famous Richard-Ginori porcelain company, ever since the 1737 founding of that company's factory in Sesto Fiorentino (a municipality of Florence). Indeed they were so invested in the plant that, when its founder Carlo Ginori died in 1757, they tried to wrest away control from his son Lorenzo, then a minor. The attempted coup was thwarted by Carlo's widow, Mariana Garzoni Venturi, who acted as interim manager until Lorenzo came of age. Arguably the most artistically important Fanciullacci to be employed at Ginori during the 18th and early 19th centuries was Gio