Terracotta Pot, Coiano, 1870

Charming and rare terracotta jar with noble coat of arms, dated 1870. Height 75 cm. From the Pucci to the Venturi, the Florentine families in Coiano In 1603 the castle of Coiano passed under the Pucci family, an ancient Florentine family that included among its members prominent figures such as religious, political and but also patrons, poets and writers. Always allies of the Medici, during the Renaissance the Pucci were among the most influential families in the political life of Cosimo de' Medici. When Cosimo was imprisoned before his exile, it was Puccio Pucci who intervened to improve his conditions of imprisonment. A curiosity. Among the most recent descendants of the Pucci family we remember Emilio Pucci, designer and entrepreneur who founded the eponymous fashion house in the postwar period and became famous, especially in the 60s and 70s, for his always very refined extravagant clothes. During 1603, Sibilla Pucci married Cosimo di Giovan Battista Venturi, bringing in dowry the assets of Coiano, as well as a portion of the paternal archive. Coiano’s estate remained with the Venturi family until 1817, when Ippolito Venturi, the last descendant of the family, died. The assets passed, thus, to her niece Carolina Venturi, with the obligation of transmitting the surname. From her marriage to the noble Paolo Lodovico Garzoni of Lucca, were born the daughters Chiara and Marianna Garzoni Venturi. It was Chiara who administered the family patrimony, composed of the assets of Carmignano and Coiano, where she resided all her life. Upon his death on 29 December 1871, the castle of Coiano passed to his daughter Carolina Antonia Schneiderff, known as Carlotta. Coiano was about to live his period of greatest splendor.