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Object Timeline

1923	Work on this object began.
1938	Work on this object ended.
1968	We acquired this object.
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Geometria Bowl

This is a bowl. It is dated 1924 and we acquired it in 1968. Its medium is painted and glazed porcelain. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Ponti, an architect, writer, and painter, and a pioneer of Italy’s postwar design renaissance, served as artistic director of the Richard-Ginori ceramics firm from 1923 to 1930. During this time, Ponti focused on the Art Deco style, exemplified in this bowl. Art Deco, inspired in part by Cubism, employed linear forms to create somewhat abstracted decoration, seen here in this bowl’s vertical and horizontal striping and graphic floral motifs.

It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.

Superleggera Chair
turned, planed and joined ash, twill-woven cane.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2013-54-1

Plate (Italy)
enameled, glazed and gilt porcelain.
Gift of Daniel Morris and Denis Gallion.
1993-134-21

Striped bowl made out of slip-cast porcelain. The stripes are formed with white bands and orange lines that feather to the side. It features a colorful scene with a collage of images. These include: half-circles resembling mountains, castle with blue battlements, church with a pink roof and green steeple, yellow shooting star, orange clouds, and a walking character depicted larger than the other elements. The traveling character wears green clothing and a large-brimmed hat. The character is in a walking motion with one foot in front of the other and is holding a gray stick. The inner portion of the bowl is also striped but now with two colors - orange and pink with a feathering effect to the side.

Il Pellegrino di Montesanto Bowl
glazed slip-cast porcelain.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
1968-146-2

Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.

An oval fluted porcelain bowl, with a cover featuring an intricate figurative sculptural finial. The bowl is white, with a beaded foot in pastel green and yellow, and a deep rose band around the base. The cover is decorated with a ridged rim, repeating the same colors of the base, surmounted by a sculptural finial presenting two mirrored figures, a male and female, in a theatrical posture that reminds of traditional folk dances. The dancers are delicately painted in the same pastel colors, and additionally orange and light blue for the costumes, and black for the hair, shoes and details of the stylized facial features. Behind the dancing couple, entwined by drapery, is an oversized, stylized rinceau motif, a botanically inspired wavy decoration that creates a playful background for the traditionally themed dancers.

Object ID #907130455
porcelain.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 87.58.
46.2016.2a,b

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 10.8 x 21 cm (4 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

It has the following markings

On underside: in stamp, overglaze black on metallic gold: "ITALIA / RICHARD GINORI / PITTORIA / DI DOCCIA / 1924"; upside-down, underglaze green: "GINORI / G"

Cite this object as

Geometria Bowl; Italy; painted and glazed porcelain; H x diam.: 10.8 x 21 cm (4 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment; 1968-146-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CCQr/
Accession Number 1968-146-1
Object ID 18464441