Polychrome ceramic Essevi depicting Balilla with a colonial helmet from an Italian officer of the field artillery regiment used on the African front (Ethiopia 1935-1936). On the helmet (Aden model supplied to the PAI - Italian police service), there are representative details that identify the original glasses and the classic tricolor rosette with national colors, and in the center the royal coat of arms with a red shield and white cross.
Measurements: H 30 X C 11
Under the base, hand-painted underglaze "ESSEVI MADE IN ITALY MOD. DI S. VACCHETTI MOD. N. 26, 22-09-38".
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The manufacture for the production of artistic ceramics "Essevi" was founded in 1934 by the painter, ceramist and designer Sandro Vacchetti in partnership with the Turin ceramist Nello Franchini, both former employees of the Turin ceramic manufacture "Lenci".
The company's production, which makes use of the collaboration of the sculptor Otto Maraini and Giovanni Grande and his wife Ines Panchieri Grande, among others, often echoes the works of the "Lenci" company, of which Vacchetti had been artistic director from its foundation until 1933, and consists of figures of women often in fashionable or skimpy clothes.
Bibliography for those who wish to learn more:
Maria Grazia Gargiulo, Sandro Vacchetti and ESSEVI, Ceramics of the Twentieth Century Italian, Paparo - Naples 2005
Fulvio Maria Rosso, By virtue of fire. Men and ceramics of the Italian twentieth century, Aosta 1983.
The Lenci ceramics, the artists-the secessionists, Milan [s.a.]. «Antiquariato», 32, 1982.
Lenci and Essevi ceramics 1927-1947, exhibition catalog, Turin 1982.
Luciano Proverbio, Lenci: ceramics 1919-1937, Turin 1979.
Italian Ceramics 1900-1950, Milan 1978
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The object is available at our shop located in Turin in Via Monte di Pietà 23/i regularly open 6 days out of 7.
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