1950s Piero Fornasetti Decorative Plate Featuring Head of Italian Opera Singer Lina Cavalieri With the Muzzle of a Lion

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This Piero Fornasetti decorative plate model 143 features the head of Lina Cavalieri with the muzzle of a lion. Lina … more This Piero Fornasetti decorative plate model 143 features the head of Lina Cavalieri with the muzzle of a lion. Lina Cavalieri was an Italian opera singer popular in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Fornasetti read about her in a 19th century French magazine. From then on he included her image in over 350 of his works. She was his muse until he died in the 1980s.

This vintage plate by Piero Fornasetti is in very good original condition.

Dimensions: 10” x 10” x 1” less