Marcello Fantoni Furniture

Signed Marcello Fantoni Italian glazed ceramic vase encased in Leather with Cubist warrior figure.

Marcello Fantoni early cubist vase, Italy 1950s Fully signed

This bowl was thrown on a potter's wheel and hand pierced. Small holes are created when the piece was still wet. Each hole is then painstakingly enlarged once the clay is bone dry. It is fired with a white satin finish glaze. While it is lovely on its own it is also a functional bowl that is stunning filled with seasonal fruit...

Marcello Fantoni Ceramic wall plaque, Depicting a Knight on a horse. Signed Fantoni. Italy 1950s

Colourful Mid Century, Italian ceramic dish with raised decoration of a stork in crackle glaze. Signed to the base Fantoni. We have three dishes av...

Danish modern 1960s ceramic vase/jar produced by Soholm Pottery. Original label in Danish on the neck and stamped on base, reference number 3308.

Hand built Ceramic Sculpture, "White Cloud". A composite of hollow, elongated pointed oval or elliptical shapes, individually hand-formed clay parts, attached together and fused during the firing. White stoneware with a white underglaze creating a soft, powdery surface that still shows a bit of texture from the clay. They have a cloud-like presence, inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...

Inspired by organic contemporary design, this pierced oblong bowl is wheel thrown, distorted and hand pierced stoneware with a glossy red glaze that breaks to black along the edges. ...

A beautiful ceramic serving bowl, dish or vide-poche wrapped and bound in a reddish brown stained leather, made in Italy, circa late 1950s-early 1960s, in the style of Marcello Fantoni. Featuring a wonderful artistic design of fishes. Would be perfect for serving nuts or other little bar snacks...

Fantoni Monumental vase, Italy, 1959. Glazed earthenware Glazed signature and date to underside: [Fantoni 1959].  

Mid-Century, abstract, Brutalist, horse sculpture by Marcello Fantoni for Raymor is a mixed metal wire sculpture mounted on a walnut base with copper label signed Fantoni Italy for R...

Marcello Fantoni (1915-2011) sculptor, ceramicist, metalworker, multi-media artist and designer Born in Florence in 1915, Marcello Fantoni began studying ceramic art at age 12 at the Art Institute of Florence with ceramicist Carlo Guerrini, artistic director of the famed Cantagalli Factory. He continued years of training in ceramics and the arts, including sculpture with Libero Andreotti and Bruno Innocenti, and figurative art with Gianni Vagnetti, graduating as a maestro of art in 1934. After a stint as art director for a ceramics factory in Perugia, in 1936 he opened the Fantoni Ceramic Studio in Florence. Here he produced ceramic series as well as unique pieces, sculptures and furnishings. In 1937 Fantoni’s pieces were exhibited in the Florence National Arts and Crafts Exhibit where their unique combination of rustic forms decorated with African and marine motifs and painted figures garnered considerable acclaim. By the start of World War II Fantoni’s melding of ancient Italian pottery techniques with decidedly Modernist elements had won him artistic and commercial success both in Italy and abroad. Having participated in the resistance, after the War Fantoni worked for the 500-year old Maiolica factory in Deruta, Umbria, renowned for its signature tin-glazed pottery. In the 1950s he refocused on his Florence studio, dedicating himself to larger sculptural pieces...