Ulisse Cantagalli

Ulisse Cantagalli pottery

Ulisse Cantagalli (1839-1901) was an Italian pottery producer in Florence, Italy.

Historical significance

In 1878, Ulisse Cantagalli took over the family's factory in Florence and began to trade as Manifattura Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli.^[1] The main production was copies of Italian maiolica, European and middle Eastern pottery: ceramics, tin-glazed earthenwares in the Iznik pottery style of the Ottoman Empire.

References

↑ Casa Vogue 202. Edizioni Condé Nast. 1988. pp. 118–. The Cantagalli ceramic manufactory, situated in Florence, was active between 1880 and 1950. Its founder, Cavalier Ulisse Cantagalli (1839-1901) was the inventor of the famous Cantagalli Style.

Cantagalli, Ulisse in Gordon Campbell (9 November 2006). The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. Oxford University Press. pp. 174–. ISBN 978-0-19-518948-3.

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