Antique coaster creamware Italian early 19th century

Creamware pottery wine coaster with reeded and pierced decoration and beaded rim. Impressed 'Carlo Aldrovandi' Italian early 19th century.  

Internal dia: 13.5 cm.

Provenance: Tom Walford Collection.

Condition Very good. 

Note: It was the year 1794 when Count Carlo Filippo Aldrovandi Marescotti (1763-1823) – consistent with the fashion of the time that wanted the nobles to commit their time to artistic activity – opened a earthery manufactory inside his Bolognese palace in Via Galliera 8, now Montanari. Paolo Pizzoli, director of the manufacture, in 1793 was sent by Aldrovandi to England to the famous manufacture of Josuah Wedgwood to uncorp the secrets of the light and ivory dough called “half porcelain”, as well as to copy the models of the Scottish architect and decorator Robert Adam (1728-1792). The Bolognese sculptors Giacomo Rossi (1751-1817) and Giacomo de Maria (1762-1838), together with the designer Onofrio Gandolfi (1787-1861), made objects with sober neoclassical lines.

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