The "Grupo de Lagarteranas". The excellence of Nalda Porcelain Painting (in pdf)

The "Grupo de Lagarteranas", by Porcelana Nalda, is the most ambitious decorated porcelain project undertaken by the artistic section of the Víctor de Nalda Porcelain and Refractory Factory, in Almácera, Valencia, in its entire history.

Nalda, the technical porcelain factory in Almácera, in Valencia, which decided to embark on an artistic adventure in 1947, had some of the best artists of its time. Amparo Montoro, an academic sculptor protected by its main sculptor, Vicente Beltrán Grimal, worked for Nalda betwen 1951 and 1957, the year she left the company when she married one of its painters, Juan Bautista Llorens Riera.

In 1953 Amparo Montoro produced her most spectacular work, the "Grupo de Lagarteranas": three women dressed in the typical costume of Lagartera, a town in Toledo, sewing, weaving and making bobbin lace. But if the sculptural execution is perfect, its pictorial splendor is even more so. The Grupo de Lagarteranas is, without a doubt, the most spectacular painted porcelain figure in the history of Spanish porcelain of the XX Century, until the appearance of the greatest works of Lladró, already in the late 1980s.

Many group and detail pictures recover, for the history of art, a work until now practically unknown, probably due to the very small number of copies that came out of the Nalda workshops.

Text and images copyright: Antonio Ten Ros. All rights reserved.

DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28743.88484

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