LENCI, SANDRO VACCHETTI, Paternal Love, polychrome ceramic

Glazed polychrome ceramic statue entitled “Paternal Love”, made by Sandro Vacchetti for Lenci, 1930.

Under the base it bears the hand-painted signature in black "LENCI, MADE IN ITALY T 24 - 6 - 30", the design of the doll and the writing "LENCI" engraved in the paste. Also embedded in the paste behind the base is “ESSEVI”

Dimensions: 17,5cm 18cm x 18cm

In good condition.

Number of the general catalog of the historical archive of the manufacture n°8, photograph n°8.

The work portrays the love of a father towards his son, a subject dear to Vacchetti himself, author in this case of a clear autobiographical quotation. He created it in 1930, a period in which he contributed significantly to the cause of Lenci, becoming its artistic director until 1934, the year in which he created his own factory, the equally well-known Essevi. Sandro Vacchetti was one of Lenci's most prolific artists, he was a painter, lithographer and sculptor and is still remembered by us today as the author of numerous models for ceramics known in the collective imagination even of people not familiar with the sector. His works are of high collectible value and not easy to find on the antiques market, especially those that show the little doll embedded under the base, witnessing only the first two/three years of production of the Lenci factory, from 1929 to 1931. The infinite a father's love towards his son is also underlined in the profile of the heart-shaped base.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY :

Alfonso Panzetta, Lenci ceramics, general catalog of the Historical Archive of the manufacture, Allemandi, Turin, 1992

Maria Grazia Gargiulo, Sandro Vacchetti and ESSEVI, Ceramics of the Italian Twentieth Century, Paparo – Naples 2005

Fulvio Maria Rosso, By virtue of fire. Men and ceramics of the Italian twentieth century, Aosta 1983.

The Lenci ceramics, the secessionist artists, Milan [sa]. «Antiques», 32, 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/ì, open regularly 6 days a week.