Glazed terracotta sculpture signed "Essevi" - Turin "Sardinian head"

The "Essevi" Artistic Ceramics Manufactory was founded in 1934 by the painter, ceramist and designer Sandro Vacchetti in partnership with the Turin ceramist Nello Franchini, both former employees of the Turin "Lenci" Ceramics Manufacture in which Vacchetti gained a long experience, since 1922 , as artistic director. Under his direction "Lenci" will experience its maximum splendor by participating in important exhibitions such as the International of Modern Decorative Arts of 1925 in Paris, in Monza in 1927, at the Gallows Gallery in London in 1929, on the occasion of which, in the magazine "The Studio", on the cover, a Madonna by Sandro Vacchetti is published. The "Essevi" production often traces the works of the Lenci firm in the figures of little women often in fashionable or skimpy dresses and the heads of girls in the foreground. The sculpture in question is signed and designed by the sculptor Alessandro Mola from Cagliari who collaborated, from the end of the Thirties, with the "Essevi". The period of production of the "Essevi" went from 1934 to 1952, cm 17 x 10.5 x 22 h.