Carlo Zauli Bowls and Baskets

Wonderful Mid-Century round decorative bowl or basket in curved rattan, wicker, and brass. This stylish organic piece was produced in Italy during the 1960s. In amazing condition an...

Italian ceramic vase by Carlo Zauli (circa 1970s). A modernist piece which has borrowed its classical shape from antiquity. Like an ancient amphora without handles, the vase has a ca...

A small decorative white ceramic bowl. A gorgeous piece with faux bois feel. This piece is created from ceramic and glazed in white. Made to look like a woven wicker basket, this pie...

Decorative Italian ceramic bowl by Guido Gambone (circa 1950s). Decorated on the inside with stylised wild bore at the centre base with shiny enamel yellowish surround which has the ...

Midcentury decorative ceramic bowl (circa 1960s) by Albert Thiry (1932-2009). A Classic Thiry design and decoration scheme, this bowl's base co...

This decorative bowl presents an oval, deeply cupped form, its interior serving as a graphic canvas for a bold, stylized face rendered in the abstract, modernist visual language asso...

Ceramic sculpture by Carlo Zauli from the series "Sphere" done in the circa 1970s. Stoneware and very abstract. Influences of Lucio Fontana are apparent. Exhibited large scale installations during Milan Design Week 2013. Carlo Zauli is indisputably considered one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century. After having won the main awards in ceramics in the fifties, the early sixties saw him evolve towards a markedly sculptural interpretation of his Craft. In these years he developed his own artistic language, imbued with informal atmospheres intertwined with a harmonious but disruptive "naturalness": these are the years of growing international success. From 1958, the year in which the great high-reliefs were made for the Baghdad palace and the Kuwait State Printing Office, he saw his fame grow continually, up to the end of the seventies and eighties, throughout Europe, Japan , North America, where he realizes exhibitions and placed work permanently. Carlo Zauli was born in 1926 in Faenza, where he died in 2002. Instead of ornate platters and decorative vases, his work seemed to have emerged from the earth itself, with organic curves, jagged edges, cracks and fissures that reflected the artist’s keen connection with nature. It was this passion for the natural world that made his work revered in Japan. Zauli first showed in the Japan as well in 1964 with the International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art that toured several top museums. At the beginning of 1960s, Carlo Zauli enters an artistic period in which he could be defined 'a sculptor of vases.' He subjects his vases to a progressive process of geometrical synthesis that, combined with a sort of abnormal growth, turns them into true sculptures. His studio receives frequent visits from Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro, Giuseppe Spagnulo...

Bitossi Decorative Bowl by Aldo Londi, Ceramic with Gold Spikes, Italy, 1960s. Small to medium scale bowl in black glaze decorated with applied gold spikes....

Vintage Italian White Ceramic Bowl, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1970 to 1979. Additional information: Materials: Ceramic Color: White Country of Origin: Italy Item Type: Vinta...

Bitossi Decorative Bowl, Ceramic and Fused Glass, Italy, 1960s, Signed. Medium scale white glazed rectangular low bowl with fused glass mosaic interior pattern of light and dark blue...

Raymor Italian Ceramic Rectangular Catchall Bowl, Italy, c.1960.

French ceramic decorative bowl by Alexandre Kostanda, Vallauris, France (circa 1960s). In his trademark natural clay and rustic style, Kostanda created beautifully original vessels, ...