Collectible Art Deco polychrome ceramic signed G. Ronzan

Refined polychrome Art Deco ceramic by the important Italian artist Giovanni Ronzan from the 1940s. Signed under the base. Beautiful collectible ceramic. Offer at an excellent price still negotiable, send your purchase proposal. READ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BELOW MEASURES Height 49 cm x Width 17 cm x Depth 17 cm Biographical note Giovanni Ronzan, founder of the business, was born on 24.9.1906, in a small town in the Vicenza area, the Nove of Bassano del Grappa, the cradle of ceramics Venetian and, following the death of his father during the First World War, he soon became the head of a family of two other brothers and three sisters. He started working at a very young age at the Bonato ceramic studio in Bassano and, after attending professional sculpture courses at the Technical Institute of Nove, he went to Milan, where he started working as a ceramist at the Fabris porcelain factory. The big jump will take place in Turin, where he will work at the Lenci company. In 1939, after leaving the Lenci company with his brothers Antonio and Giuseppe, he founded the artistic ceramic factory "Ronzan" based in Turin. In 1942, due to the war, he decided to transfer production from Turin to Bassano del Grappa, considering this place safer. Among the collaborators of the production of the 1940s, the decorator Rosa Seglie appears, whose ceramics, in addition to the production brand, bear her initials RS. In 1949 Giovanni left the factory to his brothers and coach Cecchetto and moved to Turin where he founded the "Giovanni Ronzan original ceramics" while the Bassano headquarters changed its name to "Ceramiche Ronzan e Cecchetto" and then to "Ronzan and Son. ". In 1968 Antonio left the Bassano headquarters and moved to Turin where he took over the reins of Giovanni's factory, leaving the management of the Bassano factory to Giuseppe and his son Renato, who continued production until 1996. The production of good technical and formal quality and which is a good commercial success, it is made of modern style ceramics: vases, statuettes, plates and decorative tiles but above all ornaments of a sacred and religious subject. The production of the manufacture continues, in Bassano headquarters, by Giuseppe's son Renato, until 1996 and at the Turin headquarters, by Antonio, Giuditta and Pietro's children, until 2001.