A large 1930s Italian Lenci ceramic cockerel'Gallo', by Sandro VacchettiModelled with head lower...

A large 1930s Italian Lenci ceramic cockerel
'Gallo', by Sandro Vacchetti
Modelled with head lower and to sinister, decorated with contrasting spots, inscribed beneath "Lenci MADE IN ITALY A", 11.25", (28.5cm) high, together with a Lenci black-glazed circular platter on three bun feet, marked beneath "Lenci MADE IN ITALY TORINO 2.37" with a star motif, 14.5", (37cm) diameter, (2).
Provenance:
By repute, imported by entrepreneur and inventor Harry Burrows of Manchester in the 1930s. Bequeathed to the mother of the current owner, and thence by descent.
Literature; for a matching cockerel by Vacchetti dated 1933, see:
Valerio Terraroli & Enrica Pagella, 'Lenci sculture in ceramica 1927-1937', Allemandi, Torino, 2010, plate 80 and pp. 253-4 (no. 134), where also referenced;
Alfonso Panzetta, 'Le ceramiche Lenci, catologo generale dall'archivio storico della manifattura', Allemandi, Torino, 1992, p. 180-1 (nos. 443-446).
Luciano Proverbio, 'Lenci ceramiche da collezione', Tipostampa, Torino, 2001, p. 377 (no. 26).
Luciano Proverbio, 'Novecento a novecento Gradi!', 2006, pp. 81, 136, (no. 49).