![L'Amore Dell'Antichità [Love of the Ancient Past]](http://wolfsonian.org/sites/default/files/object/84.7.19%20A%2CB.JPG?1320807735 "L'Amore Dell'Antichità [Love of the Ancient Past]")
- Title : L'Amore Dell'Antichità [Love of the Ancient Past]
- Artist: Gio Ponti Designer Manifattura Ceramica Richard-Ginori Maker
- Accession: 84.7.19 a,b
- Country: Italy Doccia (Florence)
- Date: circa 1932
- Dimensions: Inches 14-3/4 7 4-3/8 Dimensions, overall Inches 4-1/4 4-1/2 2-7/8 Dimensions, lid (a) Inches 11 7 4-3/8 Dimensions, urn (b), Centimeters 37.5 17.8 11.1 Dimensions, overall Centimeters 10.8 11.4 7.3 Dimensions, lid (a) Centimeters 27.9 17.8 11.1 Dimensions, urn (b)
- Collection: Object
- Category: Decorative Arts and Furniture
- Subject: Animals , Figurative , Ceramics/Ceramic Design
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: 84.7.19 A,B.JPG
- Tags: Decorative Arts and Furniture
Description:
Urn with lid featuring matte and gloss gold decorations of figures and motifs on white porcelain; handles on urn form gilded feathers; top of lid depicts chick hatching from an egg; on one side, title enclosed in circle with female standing next to bust on pedestal; remaining side includes urn atop pedestal. a: lid, b: urn