Prospettica Vase Gio Ponti Design

Prospettica Vase Gio Ponti Design

This vase is one of Gio Ponti’s most famous works and reveals his training as an architect in the title, in the series of vases that occupy the cells and in the perspective rendering of the cells themselves, which prelude vision from a single point of view.

The exemplar presented here is smaller than the one designed by Ponti, whose shape with relief panels was made from 1923, while this type of decoration is dated 1925.

Richard Ginori presents this porcelain vase with the illusionistic effect of the relief and with the decoration studied in decalcomania. The knowledge of the masters and technicians of the manufactory has made it possible to evoke a work by Ponti using modern technologies, as Ponti himself had hoped, proposing, for some of his creations, the intervention of various types of decoration. In this case, the Manufacture translated the decoration into a linear vision, studying its adherence to a surface with strong tapering upwards and downwards.
Decorated by hand, in decal, the technique of ‘double cutting’ is used in order to maintain the same thickness as the framing of the cells.

Richard-Ginori is a company founded in 1737 as the Manifattura di Doccia by Marquis Carlo Ginori in Doccia (Florence). It is world-famous for its porcelain, the production of which is still located in Sesto Fiorentino, despite the merger with the industrial group of the Milanese Augusto Richard, owner of other factories, which took place in 1896, hence the current name.

Of historical and artistic importance is the relative Richard-Ginori Museum of the Doccia Factory, adjacent to the current factory, which displays the production of the factory since its foundation.

On October 11, 1896, the Richard Ceramic Company merged with the Manifattura dei Marchesi Ginori: it united the Doccia factory and the six shops in Florence, Bologna, Turin, Rome and Naples. The famous Richard-Ginori ceramics company is born.
In the very same year of the merger he produces a commemorative service for the Casa Ricordi, immediately after the first performance of Puccini’s Bohème in February 1896.

Richard’s entry into Doccia introduces many mechanical innovations in the workshops and enhances lithographic decalcomania to reduce the heavy expense of hand decoration.

In the period 1923-1930 Gio Ponti works as art director at the Richard-Ginori Ceramic Manufactory, renewing its product range.

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