Minghetti Manufactory | Terracotta And Decorated Majolica Mr. Bonaventura With The Dachshund An

Rare figure taken from comic strips and the advertising world of the 20th century.  Figure in the round with polychrome decoration alternating with satinised and unglazed flesh, made by the Minghetti factory, height approx. 20cm, signed on the bottom.

Born in 1917 in the pages of the Corriere dei Piccoli, Mr. Bonaventura was a character created by Sergio Tofano and every story used to end with: "un milione" .... round and round and he would exult in rhyming couplets: 
"I'll no longer be a swashbuckler / nor a minchione nor a cialtrone, / no longer servant but master / and master of a million!" The Dachshund also exulted: 
"No more bones nor mash / will offer me, but capon, / but pigeon in profusion, / I am a dog of a million!" Then Bonaventura again, sending back and dancing: "It will spread widely / from America to Japan / like a cannon shot / the news..." - here ALL in chorus - "of the MILLION!!!"
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