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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Walter Del Pellegrino, post: 397617, member: 90&quot;]It was indeed made in the studio of Terracotte Artistiche di San Zeno. </p><p>Laura Ruschi was born in Pisa in 1879 and died there in 1965. She was the seventh of twelve children born to Julius Ruschi and Adele Fabbri-Ruschi. They were a substantially well-off family with considerable holdings that included a palace in the Piazza D&#039;Ancona in Pisa and large farm in the countryside. One sister, Virginia married an English Lord (Oscar Tobler) and another married a lawyer, Bonucci Lannotti. Laura&#039;s mother died in 1899 and her father died in 1905. Laura remained in the family home with her sister, Clara.</p><p>We know little of Laura&#039;s formal education but supposedly she had an affinity for business and an understanding and talent for artistic design. In 1903, two years before the death of Laura&#039;s father she became involved with the Italian Feminine Industries Committee (Comitato Industrie Femminili Italiane), which was founded in Pisa by Madame Benzoni Teresa Martini, at the urging of the Countess de Brazza Savorgnan, chairman of the Committee of Rome. Thus, in 1926 the &quot;Terracotta Artists of of San Zeno&quot; (Terracotte Artistiche di San Zeno) was born. Laura took on a partner, Margaret Bassolina, who became the company&#039;s artistic director and together they hired Giotto Fagiolini who taught the art of ceramics decoration to classes of women (no men).</p><p>Laura left the factory in 1936 to involve herself with other ventures. In 1940 the company was having financial troubles and closed its doors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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