DOMENICO RAMBELLI

(1886 - 1972)

diameter 66 x 5cm

Polychrome ceramic ceremonial plate with metallic luster. Smooth plate with a beaded rim and a double ring foot. Decorated with graffito relief on pale straw and ivory glaze on a red background. On the reverse, in blue underglaze, Faenza Reggia Scuola with the number 105 and inventory no. 203. Most likely made by Melisenda Lama based on a design by Domenico Rambelli. The plate was exhibited at the Milan Triennale in 1933.
Bibliography: "Domus", August 1934, p. 35, fig. 5; Istituto statale.., 1983, p. 10; "Domenico Rambelli and ceramics at the Faenza School from 1919 to 1944", Centro Di, Florence, 1989.