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Property from a Private New Jersey Collection

Gio Ponti

Pair of Table Lamps

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private New Jersey Collection

Gio Ponti

Pair of Table Lamps


circa 1925

produced by Richard Ginori, Italy

gilt and painted porcelain, fabric shades

each signed GIO PONTI and with the producer's mark

19¼ in. (48.9 cm) high each, excluding fittings

12 in. (30.5 cm) diameter of each shade

"Die Keramische Manufaktur Richard-Ginori auf der Pariser Kunstgewerbe-Ausstellung 1925," Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 57, January 1926, p. 283 (for a related example)
Paolo Portoghesi and Anty Pansera, Gio Ponti alla manifattura di Doccia, Milan, 1982, p. 51
Loris Manna, Gio Ponti: Le Maioliche, Milan, 2000, p. 33 (for a period photograph of a related example exhibited at Il Biennial of Monza, 1925)
Giampero Bosoni, Il Modo Italiano: Design e avanguardie artistiche in Italia nel XX secolo, Milan, 2007, p. 186 (for a related example)
Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 2009, pp. 28-29 (for related examples)
Kenneth E. Silver. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2010, p. 34 (for a related example)

This lot is offered together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.