Known for his prolific mid-century works, Italian artist Bruno Gambone is regarded as one of the most influential figures in ceramics. Born in 1936 in Vietri sul Mare, Gambone was introduced to the world of ceramics at the age of 14 while he worked in the Florence studio of his father, renowned ceramist Guido Gambone.
Toward the end of the 1950s, Gambone left his father’s studio to work at Italian artist Andrea D’Arienzo’s workshop, where he explored other disciplines such as canvas painting and textile decoration. He became committed to painting and exhibited at Florence’s La Strozzina in 1959.
In 1963, Gambone left Italy for the United States. He lived in New York City during a fertile era for creative expression — a time marked by pivotal artistic movements such as Pop art and Abstract Expressionism. Gambone made numerous friends and moved in the same circles as iconic American artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. The Italian native learned more about a range of fields such as sculpture and theater. However, after five years, he returned to his homeland to live in Milan.
While in Milan, Gambone experimented with jewelry design for a brief period. But following his father’s death in 1969, Gambone returned to Florence to run his father’s studio, shifting his attention back toward ceramics.
Throughout the 1970s, Gambone created table lamps, vases, bowls and sculptures, including a series of ceramic animals. He began work in 1972 on what would become his celebrated “Fantastic Animals” series — initially a minimalist collection of stoneware fish, lions, snakes and other creatures characterized by sharp-edged geometric forms.
Gambone showcased his ceramic works at the 1972 Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale in 1973. The artist received awards from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego at La Jolla and other institutions.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of vintage Bruno Gambone decorative objects, serveware and lighting.
Midcentury Italian Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone 'circa 1970s', Small
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Diminutive midcentury Italian ceramic bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1970s). Elegantly cylindrical with a two-toned glaze, one glossy black, the...
Ceramic
Modernist Glazed Stoneware Vase by Bruno Gambone
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Italian Modern stoneware vase by Bruno Gambone with rectangular base supporting an elegant, tapered neck and flared aperture (ca. late 1950s, Italy). White glaze with specks of turqu...
Stoneware
$1,668Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Italian Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Italian ceramic decorative bottle with lid and handle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s). Visually and texturally, this piece seems to have its origins in antiquity. It is a sculptural w...
Ceramic
$3,560Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Italian Ceramic Decorative Bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1990s) - Large
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Italian ceramic decorative bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1990s). This sculptural work consists of a rectangular body with soft, curvy shoulders leading to a graceful, elongated neck...
Stoneware
Midcentury Italian Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone 'circa 1970s', Small
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Diminutive midcentury Italian ceramic bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1970s). Elegantly cylindrical with a misty, rustic, matt glaze in an aqua g...
Ceramic
$2,212Sale Price|24% Off
Vintage Italian Decorative Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Ceramic decorative bottle / single-flower vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s) with chalk-white surface as backdrop for a mottled, turquoise mid-body decorative band. This graceful na...
Ceramic
$2,212Sale Price|24% Off
Vintage Italian Decorative Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Ceramic decorative bottle / single-flower vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s) with chalk-white surface featuring oatmeal-hued spots on the main body. The lower section carries a seri...
Ceramic
$2,317Sale Price|24% Off
Vintage Italian Ceramic Amphora by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Ceramic Italian decorative vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s). A sensuous amphora-shaped piece featuring an oatmeal-hued, wide body that narrows upwards towards a dark chocolate bro...
Ceramic
Italian Midcentury Decorative Ceramic Jug by Bruno Gambone, circa 1970s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Italian ceramic decorative pitcher / vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1970s). Just as our other Bruno Gambone vessels do, this one too has a purity of form, muted hue and demonstrated, e...
Ceramic
Black and Chocolate Brown Ceramic Bottle-Shaped Vase by Bruno Gambone, c. 1980s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Ceramic vase by ceramicist Bruno Gambone, (circa 1980s). This elegant narrow-opening bottle-shaped vase is highly collectible by those who follow the works of art created by the incomparable Bruno Gambone. A long, elegant neck in a lustrous black glaze is punctuated only by an azure blue in the middle which seems to drip down its side to the body of the piece. The black finishes abruptly and is replaced with a light chocolate brown to the base. Gambone ceramics...
Ceramic
$2,772Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Italian Decorative Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Italian ceramic decorative bottle with lid by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s). Reduced to its most basic elements - like a Mondrian painting - Gambone has simplified this stately piece t...
Ceramic
Italian Ceramic Bottle-Shaped Vase by Bruno Gambone, circa 1980s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Ceramic 'Sassi' vase with trademark grès light rose textured glaze with abstract linear markings by master ceramicist Bruno Gambone, (circa 1980s). This elegant narrow-opening bottle-shaped vase is truly a work of art. There is an asymmetrical 'primitive' stoneware body with shapely shoulders leading to a graceful, elongated neck with rounded horn-shaped opening. The sumptuous glaze graces the surface interrupted only by mid-level black stripes which span the majority of the elegant form. Gambone ceramics...
Ceramic
$7,500
Bruno Gambone Vase
By Bruno Gambone
Located in New York, NY
Unique bottle-form case by Bruno Gambone. Large-scale, stoneware bottle-form sculpture/vase with incised line decoration to front and back. Off-white m...
$1,053Sale Price|20% Off
Italian Vintage Ceramic Bottle by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Vintage Italian decorative bottle-shaped vessel with a warm ochre coloured ceramic surface, and dark green, glazed rectangular shapes on the body, seemingly like windows looking out ...
Ceramic
Set of Three Bottle-Shaped Vases by Bruno Gambone, circa 1990s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Set of three bottle-shaped single-flower vases by Bruno Gambone (circa 1990s). All three are glazed stoneware pieces with modern, multi-coloured geometric motif. The middle-sized vas...
Ceramic
$1,678Sale Price|50% Off
Bruno Gambone glazed stoneware ceramic vase greige brown 1970
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful Bruno Gambone greige glazed stoneware ceramic single flower vase, bottle shaped, made in the mid-1970s. This beautiful vase is typical of Bruno Gambone minimalistic design,...
Ceramic
Bruno Gambone Italian White Brown Stoneware Vase 1970s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Gres Stoneware vase designed and produced by Italian artist Bruno Gambone in shades of white and brown, production Italy 1970s Signed Gambone Italy under the vase.
Ceramic
Bruno Gambone Ceramic/Pottery Bottle/ Vase Signed
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great sweet vase/bottle by the well known artist Bruno Gambone . signed and Italy in bottom.
Pottery, Ceramic
Bruno Gambone Stoneware or Ceramic Vase, Italy, 1970s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Gambone tall stoneware or ceramic vase or bottle in dark brown and matte off-white glaze with incised line around upper area below the bottle neck, Italy, 1970s. Marked with gl...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Painted Ceramic Pitcher Vase by Bruno Gambone 1970s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Milano, MI
Hand-painted ceramic pitcher, made by Bruno Gambone in the 1970s Ø cm 20 h cm 17 Bruno Gambone (1936-2021) was an influential Italian ceramicist and artist, widely recognized for h...
Ceramic
Ceramic Bull Sculpture attributed to Bruno Gambone, 1980s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Antwerp, BE
A graphic stylistic impression of a beautiful sculptural bull animal figure, a collector's item for your interior attributed to Bruno Gambon made in Italy 1980s, molded in white clay...
Ceramic
$6,370Sale Price|35% Off
H 22 in W 9.25 in D 3 in
Bruno Gambone Vase, Ceramic, Abstract, Earth Tones, Signed
By Bruno Gambone
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Gambone Vase, Ceramic, Abstract, Earthtones, Signed. Tall hand thrown stoneware vase, with elongated neck and rectangular body, decorated on both sides with abstract expression...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Bruno Gambone Ceramic Pitcher, Italy, 1970s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Milan, IT
A sculptural ceramic pitcher by Bruno Gambone, executed in Italy during the 1970s. This refined work exemplifies Gambone’s early exploration of form, where function begins to dissolv...
Ceramic
Bruno Gambone Mid-Century Modern Striped Ceramic Vase, Italy, 1972
By Bruno Gambone
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Gambone vase, ceramic, Stripes, Signed. Medium scale slender bottle form vase with a neutral almond glazed body and a neck glazed in bands of yellow, red, and blue. Signed "Gam...
Ceramic
$1,425Sale Price|70% Off
H 12.5 in W 4.75 in D 3 in
Bruno Gambone Vase, Ceramic, White, Stripes, Signed
By Bruno Gambone
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Gambone Vase, Ceramic, White, Stripes, Signed. Medium scale bottle form vase with sloped shoulders and decorated with a dark orange angled stripe over an off-white speckled gla...
Ceramic
Ceramic Sculpture with Steel Base by Bruno Gambone, Italy, c. 1990
By Bruno Gambone
Located in New York City, NY
Figurative glazed ceramic sculpture with steel base by Bruno Gambone, Italy, c. 1990.
Steel
Bruno Gambone Ceramic Vase or Bottle, Italy, 1970s
By Paolo Buffa
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Gambone light black glazed ceramic bottle or vase with a flattened circular body and elongated tapering neck, Italy 1970s. The body is incise...
Ceramic
Rare Set of Three (3) Bruno Gambone Bronze Vases - SIGNED
By Bruno Gambone
Located in North Miami, FL
Rare Set of Bruno Gambone artist signed bronze bottle form vases - three of them (two in bronze and one in white bronze, which is VERY RARE). Bottles with quadrangular section in ca...
Bronze
Gambone Vase
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Chicago, IL
Gambone Vase, In vibrant blues, signed underside Gambone Italy 9" high 6" diameter 2" opening
Ceramic
Set of Two Italian Ceramic Vases by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Set of two ceramic vases by Italian ceramicist Bruno Gambone, (circa 1980s). These very graceful, narrow-opening flower vases are works of art. They are visually stunning and tactile...
Ceramic
Pair of Italian Ceramic Bottles by Bruno Gambone (circa 1980s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Pair of Italian ceramic bottles with chalk-white surface and lightly chocolate brown highlights by ceramicist Bruno Gambone, circa 1980s. These graceful pieces are composed of elegan...
Ceramic
Vintage Italian Ceramic Jug / Vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1970s)
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Italian ceramic decorative jug / vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1970s). The vessel has a purity of form, muted colour and demonstrated effortless beauty that is only created by Bruno G...
Ceramic
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H 12.6 in W 11.23 in D 4.73 in
Bruno Gambone, Two Stoneware Sassi Bottle Vases, circa 1984, signed
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Two large and impressive stoneware 'Sassi' bottle vases by Bruno Gambone (Italian 1936-2021), the son of Guido Gambone, himself a well-known ceramist of the mid-20th Century. Of org...
Stoneware
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H 18.12 in W 7.88 in D 3.94 in
Bruno Gambone, Two Stoneware Sassi Bottle Vases, circa 1984, signed
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Two large and impressive stoneware 'Sassi' bottle vases by Bruno Gambone (Italian 1936-2021), the son of Guido Gambone, himself a well-known ceramist of the mid-20th Century. Of org...
Stoneware
Bruno Gambone Ceramic Bottle, Italy, 1960s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Rotterdam, ZH
Sculptural ceramic bottle vase by Bruno Gambone (1936 -2021), Italy 1960s. Beautiful organically shaped bottle vase with its original cap, the irregular shape makes it interesting from every different angle. The vase has a very interesting textured surface finished with a subtle multi colored glaze, the choose of color and minimal abstract drawing...
Ceramic
Set of Three Stoneware Vases by Bruno Gambone 'circa 1980s'
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Set of three stoneware vases by Italian ceramicist Bruno Gambone, (circa 1980s). These three unique graceful, narrow-opening flower vases are works of art seemingly formed or sculpte...
Stoneware
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H 15.16 in W 5.12 in D 3.94 in
Stoneware Italian Bottle-Shaped Flower Vase by Bruno Gambone 'circa 1980s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
A stoneware vase with delicate sandy glaze by Italian ceramicist Bruno Gambone, (circa 1980s). This graceful, narrow-opening flower vase is a true work of art seemingly formed or scu...
Ceramic
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H 11.23 in W 7.49 in D 2.56 in
Trio of Italian Stoneware Vases with Abstract Motif by Bruno Gambone, c. 1990s
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
A trio of bottle-shaped vases by Italian ceramicist Bruno Gambone, (circa 1990s). These elegantly shaped narrow-opening flower vases are earthenware elevated to works of art. They ar...
Sandstone
Italian Ceramic Vase by Bruno Gambone 'circa 1980s'
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
Ceramic vase / bottle with metallic-sheen glaze and verdigris drip motif by ceramicist Bruno Gambone, circa 1980s. This elegant, narrow-opening bottle-shaped vase is a work of art. There is a rectangular body with soft, curvy shoulders leading to a graceful, elongated neck with rounded opening. At the base, a sumptuous dark chocolate (nearly black) glaze graces the surface interrupted only by a wide mid-level stripe on one side with decorative verdigris drip effect on the other. Gambone ceramics...
Ceramic
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H 20.08 in W 5.52 in D 2.37 in
Glazed Ceramic Earthenware Vase by Bruno Gambone, Italy circa 1970
By Bruno Gambone
Located in London, GB
This glazed earthenware vase by Bruno Gambone was designed and manufactured in the same Florentine studio that was established by his famous ceramicist father, Guido. Produced in the...
Ceramic