Description
Vintage Fontanini Resin Figurine Asian Dancer & Dragon Made in Italy-10” Signed with the vintage Fontanini Markings. “Early Fontanini figurines are marked on the bottom with “Depose Italy” or “Dep Italy,” an item number and a spider-like symbol.” “Fontanini is a family concern which began with the patriarch, Emanuele. He was at first an apprentice figurine-painter to another company but in 1908 started Fontanini as a small local business in a single room in the tiny Tuscan town of Bagni di Lucca. The company has always specialized in hand-crafted, hand-painted Italian figures which have become symbols throughout Italy.