Large And Important Ceramic Rooster By Ugo Zaccagnini

The ceramic factory 'Ugo Zaccagnini & Figli' was founded by Ugo Zaccagnini, a former employee of 'Richard-Ginori', in Sesto Fiorentino in 1905.
The company's first production focused on historicist majolica and earthenware often inspired by the ancient Della Robbia models.
The company, with which Zaccagnini's five children, Urbano, Pietro, Prisco, Adele and Enrichetta, collaborated, moved to Florence in 1912, where it began a production of larger volumes, which it presented at numerous editions of the Triennale and the Fiera Campionaria in Milan and at the Artisan Exhibitions in Florence.
In 1936, after the death of the founder, the factory changed its name to "Società Anonima Ceramiche Zaccagnini" with headquarters in Piazza Pier Vettori 10, Florence and the office of managing director and artistic director was entrusted to the eldest of the Urbano heirs.
In the second half of the 1930s, numerous artists collaborated with the factory, including: Mario Bandini, Ottorino Palloni, Maurizio Tempestini, Gino Pozzi and Leopold Anzengruber.
At the end of the 1930s, Walt Disney entrusted 'Zaccagnini S.p.A.', based at that time in Piazza Pier Vettori 10 in Florence, with the production of ceramics for the characters of their cartoons.
In 1950, some of the company's ceramics, including a series of plates, were exhibited at the Exhibition of Italian Craftsmanship at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
In the 1950s an artistic line inspired by abstractionism, called 'Swedish', was included in the production.
In 1958 Urbano Zaccagnini left the family factory and founded 'Urbano Zaccagnini Ceramiche Artistiche', which remained active until the mid-1960s.
The 'S.p.A. Zaccagnini' is still active until the year 2000.

The dimensions make it unique

Size: 70.5 x 45 cm