Vintage plate from the series of church domes “Cupole d'Italia”

Decorated porcelain 

Plate number 5 from the series Cupole d’Italia: San Lorenzo a Torino.

Each plate with a different dome of an Italian church seen from the inside named and numbered on the reverse. These plates were designed and executed for building contractor Andrea Brenta, Milan, as Christmas presents. One of each was given every year to clients and friends of the contractor's.

Inscription overleaf: CUPOLE D’ITALIA/COLLEZIONE RISERVATA AGLI AMICI DELL’INGEGNERE ANDREA BRENTA DI MILANO/DISEGNO DI PIERO FORNASETTI.

Bibliography:

B. Fornasetti, “Fornasetti: The Complete Universe”, Milano 2009

P. Mauriès, “Fornasetti. La follia pratica”, Umberto Allemandi, 1992, pp 118 – 119