GX1993.45.1

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 90; Larghezza: 42; Profondità: 42

maiolica

Inspired by his fundamental experience in Siam – where he stayed from 1911 to 1913, called by King Rama VI to create the pictorial decorations for the Throne Palace, designed by architects Annibale Rigotti and Mario Tamagno – gave rise to the impressive decorative apparatus of the Berzieri Thermal Baths in Salsomaggiore, inaugurated in 1923 and designed by architect Ugo Giusti. In the decorative elements of Chini's flower boxes, stylised geometric motifs of Secessionist origin are integrated with iconographic themes of Eastern derivation: such as the lion's head, already reproduced in the famous painting Ultimo giorno dell'anno cinese a Bangkok (Last Day of the Chinese Year in Bangkok, 1912) and then replicated on the façade and decoration of the bar counter of the Tamerici Establishment in Montecatini and on the façade of the Berzieri Thermal Baths themselves Vase with geometric and decorative motifs.