Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
While collectors will will find everything from animals to historic Italian architecture printed on original Piero Fornasetti dinner plates, serveware and other dinnerware, the illustrator and furniture maker’s signature motif is the face of a mysterious woman, one loosely modeled after opera singer Lina Cavalieri, who became his fantastical muse.
The Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti was one of the wittiest and most imaginative talents of the 20th century. He crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and — most frequently, and in some 500 variations — an enigmatic woman’s face based on that of Cavalieri. Fornasetti used transfer prints of these images, rendered in the style of engravings, to decorate an endless variety of furnishings and housewares that ranged from chairs, tables and decorative objects to dinner plates, table lamps and umbrella stands. His work is archly clever, often Surrealist and always fun.
Fornasetti was born in Milan, the son of an accountant, and he lived his entire life in the city. He showed artistic talent as a child and enrolled at Milan’s Brera Academy of Fine Art in 1930, but was expelled after two years for consistently failing to follow his professors’ orders. A group of his hand-painted silk scarves, displayed in the 1933 Triennale di Milano, caught the eye of the architect and designer Gio Ponti, who, in the 1940s, became Fornasetti’s collaborator and patron. Beginning in the early 1950s, they created a striking series of desks, bureaus and secretaries that pair Ponti’s signature angular forms with Fornasetti’s decorative motifs — lighthearted arrangements of flowers and birds on some pieces, austere architectural imagery on others. The two worked together on numerous commissions for interiors, though their greatest project has been lost: the first-class lounges and restaurants of the luxury ocean liner Andrea Doria, which sank in 1956.
Fornasetti furnishings occupy an unusual and compelling niche in the decorative arts: they are odd yet pack a serious punch. They act, essentially, as functional sculpture. A large Fornasetti piece such as a cabinet or a desk can change the character of an entire room; his smaller works have the aesthetic power of a vase of flowers, providing a bright and alluring decorative note. The chimerical, fish-nor-fowl nature of Fornasetti’s work may be its greatest strength. It stands on its own. Bringing the Fornasetti look into the future is Barnaba Fornasetti, who took the reins of the company after his father's death.
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Creator: Piero Fornasetti
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dinner Plate, Number 6
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dinner Plate,
Number 6,
1960s
The Piero Fornasetti Sezioni, number 6, trompe l'oeil porcelain plate depicts a section of an apple on a ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Conchiglie Porcelain Dinner Plates, A Set of Six
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Set of Six Porcelain Plates,
Decorated With Sea Anemones, Urchins & Shells,
Conchiglie Pattern,
Circa 1960-70's.
The Fornasetti plates in the Conchiglie pat...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti "Assiettes Specialita Vicentine" Set of Six Porcelain Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti "Assiettes Specialita Vicentine" series,
A Set of Six Porcelain plates, Numbered 1-6,
1970s
Piero Fornasetti porcelain pset of plates, numbered 1-6, from the "Assie...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 12 Plates, Piero Fornasetti, Adamo / Adam
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Stockholm, SE
12 plates of model Adamo (Adam) designed by Piero Fornasetti in the 1950s. Piero Fornasetti created one set of Adam and one set of Eva containing 12 plates each. These plates are 26 ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piatto P.Fornasetti Serie Astrolabio 1965
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Lucca, IT
Dish by Piero Fotnasetti Serie Asttolabio 1967 .White and gold porcelain,cm 24 .First series Marked numbered and dated on the back. I have published two other dishes in the same ser...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Maschere Italian plates, Set of Three
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Chicago, IL
Piero Fornasetti Maschere Italian plates, Set of Three, Made in Italy, c. 1950
Stamped manufacturer's mark to verso of each plate ‘Fornasetti Milano Made in Italy’
dimensions:
porcel...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Piatto Piero Fornasetti Serie Astrolabio 1968
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Lucca, IT
Piatto di Piero Fornasetti Serie AstroLabio 1965 .
White and gold porcelain first original edition .Marked numbered and signed on the back .
It presents jna deficiency that will be t...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piatto serie "Astrolabio", Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti Milano, 1971
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Rivoli, IT
Piatto serie "Astrolabio" Fornasetti Milano , Natale 1971
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piatto P.Fornasetti Serie Astrolabio 1965
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Lucca, IT
Piatto di Piero Fornasettivdella serie AstroLabio 1967.Firmato e datato sul retro Prima serie Porcellana decorata e dorata. Piatto cm 24 .
Sono pubblicati altri due di questi piat...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
1965 Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Astrological Sign Leo
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate,
Astrological Sign Leo,
Astrali Pattern,
Made for Corisia,
Dated 1965, No 2.
The plate for the sign LEO is dated 1965 and is numbered...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate, Astrological Sign of Capricorn
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate,
Astrological Sign of Capricorn,
Made for Corisia in 1964.
The plate in black and gold depicts the ast...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Rosenthal Plate, Temi E Variazioni-Themes and Variation, Motiv 15
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 15,
"Hands",
The 1980s
The striking Rosenthal Fornasetti gold-rimmed black and white printed plate with the face of ...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti hand painted decorative plate, "Tema e Variazioni" 78, made in Italy
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Have you ever wondered who's the woman that appears on the iconic Fornasetti plates? You might believe she's just an imaginary muse, dreamed by Piero Fornasetti. Turns out, she's way...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Set of 8 Gilted Astrolabe Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Paris, FR
Piero Fornasetti 1913-1988 lived and worked in Milano and he was very fond of science. This series normally is composed of 12 designs about astrolabe or "Astrolabos" in Greece which ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate, No 4 for Tiffany
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sezioni Di Frutta Dessert Plate,
No 4 in Series,
Made for Tiffany,
1960s
The tromp l"oeil porcelain plate depicts a section o...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates,
After Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
Arcimboldesca Pattern,
Set of Twelve,
Circa 1955
The 1950s pottery plates with a wide ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Astrological Sign of Pisces
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate,
Astrological Sign of Pisces,
Astrali Pattern,
Made for Corisia,
Dated 1971, No 8
The plate for the sign PISCES is dated 1971 and ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, Giostra di Frutta (Merry-go-Round of Fruit)
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates,
Giostra di Frutta,
Set of Six,
Numbered 1 through 6,
1955-65
The pattern "Giostra di Frutta" translates as a Merry-Go-Round of Fruit. The plate is...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate,
Cammei or Cameo,
Circa 1950s-60s
From a group of Five.
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate, named Cammei on the reverse, me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Neo-classical Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate,
Cammei or Cameo,
Circa 1950s-60s
From a set of five which are each sold individually.
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Neo-classical Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei (Cameo) Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Green Malachite Cammei Plate,
Cammei or Cameo,
Circa 1950s-60s
From a Set of Five- sold separately.
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate, named Cammei on ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates,
After Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
Set of Nine,
Circa 1970s.
The plates are after Giuseppe Arc...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic
1970 Piero Fornasetti "Libra" Zodiac Porcelain Plate Made for Corisia
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Libra Zodiac Porcelain Plate
Made for Corisia in 1970.
The plate in black and gold depicts the astrological sign Libra with words, i...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plates, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plates,
After Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
A Pair,
Circa 1955
The pottery plates are after Giuseppe Arcimboldo- the design of a face c...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Fornasetti Themes & Variations Plate #334, Atelier Fornasetti, The Quiet
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation plate, #334,
The Quiet,
Atelier Fornasetti
With Original Box.
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts t...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Mesi & Soli Plates, "12 Mesi, 12 Soli", Twelve Suns
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Mesi & Soli Plates,
"12 Mesi, 12 Soli", Twelve Suns, Twelve Months,
Eight Plates,
Mid to Late 1950s.
Piero Fornasetti's "12 Mesi 12 Soli" series numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10, showing the sun as a woman's face and each one representing a different month- May & June.
Dimensions: 10-inch diameter x 1-inch high.
The Piero Fornasetti Mesi & Soli Pattern Plates are a series of twelve porcelain plates that were designed by the Italian artist Piero Fornasetti in the 1950s. Each plate features a different month of the year, represented by a sun with the face of a woman. The plates are decorated in a whimsical and playful style that is typical of Fornasetti's work.
The Mesi & Soli Pattern Plates were inspired by a calendar that Fornasetti created in 1942 for his friend, the Italian publisher Gio Ponti. The calendar featured a series of drawings of the sun with the face of a woman, and Fornasetti later adapted these drawings for the plates.
The Mesi & Soli Pattern Plates were first produced in the early 1950s.
Mark: Each with Piero Fornasetti printed...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate,
After Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
Number 12,
Circa 1960's.
The pottery plates are after Giuseppe Arc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
1969 Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate, Virgo, Made for Corisia
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Porcelain Plate,
Virgo,
Made for Corisia in 1969 #6 in series.
The plate in black and gold depicts the astrological si...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Set of Plates with Mollusks
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti porcelain Conchiglie seashell plates with snails and mollusks,
Set of Six,
circa 1960s-1970s
The Fornasetti plate is decorated in the Conchiglie pattern which d...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-century Modern Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Appetizer Fish Kebab Dishes and Tray
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Appetizer Fish Kebab Dishes and Serving Tray,
1960s
There are four ceramic deep rectangular dishes placed in a long rectangular gold metal tray with handles at each end.
The trays together display a single large fish kebab on a skewer with each dish showing one part of the kebab. The kebab holds two different fish, shrimp, lemon slices, olives, egg slices...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Aluminum
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Cook Plates-Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam Du Pont
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Cook Plates,
Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam A La Du Pont,
Made for Fleming Joffe,
Silkscreen & Transfer,
1960s-early 70s.
These two Piero Fornasetti porcelain plates are from a series made for the Fleming Joffe hide company in New York City. These were originally given as a pair to clients in a box with a cardboard box with a faux hide covering. It is very rare to find two plates staying together like these.
Included with the two plates is the paper separator and the original Thank you card...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate, # 27
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 27,
With Original Box,
1980s
The Piero Fornasetti Themes & Variation design is made on Rosenthal porcelain....
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations - Buttons, Motiv 13
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Rosenthal Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plate,
Themes and Variations,
Buttons
Motiv 13,
1980s
The striking Rosenthal Fornasetti gold-rimmed black and white printed plate with t...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
1972 Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Number 9 Aries, Astrali Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Zodiac Plate, Number 9
Aries,
Astrali Pattern,
Made for Corisia
Dated 1972
The plate for the sign ARIES is dated 1972 and is numbered #9. The pla...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #286
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #286,
The Binoculars,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the f...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes and Variations Plate, Motiv 28
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes And Variations Plate,
Motiv Number 28,
1980s
The striking Rosenthal Fornasetti gold-rimmed black and white printed plate with the fa...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Fish Plates, Pesci pattern or Passage of Fish
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of rare Piero Fornasetti Fish Plates,
Pesci pattern or Passage of Fish,
Numbered # 2 & 3,
circa 1960s
The porcelain plates depict two diff...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Display Plate, Barney's New York Collection
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Classic midcentury Italian Designed plate featuring an iconic image from Piero Fornasetti’s work, his muse the opera singer, Lina Cavalieri. Crisp black and white timeless design i...
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1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Set of Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Rosoni Pattern Plates-Rosettes
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Set of Six Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Rosoni pattern plates depicting Rosettes
1980s,
The dramatic plates depict six different large black and white flower-shaped rosettes on a gilt ground.
Dimensions: 10 inches diameter x 1 1/4 inches high.
The plates are numbered 1-6, each a different design.
Mark: a printed black and white flower with the name ROSONI above the Fornasetti hand...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Gold Adam Porcelain Plates, Set of Twelve
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Gold Adam Porcelain Plates,
1970s.
A complete set of twelve vintage painted gold ground transfer-printed porcelain plates in black and white...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
MCM Piero Fornasetti Astrolabe Porcelain Plate, #1, Astrolabio Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti astrolabe porcelain plate,
#1 in Astrolabio pattern,
1960s-mid 1970s.
The Piero Fornasetti plate depicts an astrol...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Fornasetti Surrealist Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #319
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Surrealist Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #319,
Gorgonzola Cheese,
Atelier Fornasetti
20th Century
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Vari...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Themes & Variations Plate-Clock, Pattern Number 74
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #74
The Clock,
Atelier Fornasetti,
1990s
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plate, Giastra Di Frutta # 6
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate,
Giastra di Frutta # 6,
1955-1965
The pattern "Giostra di Frutta" translates as a Merry-Go-Round...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate with Mollusks, #9
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate With Snails and Mollusks,
#9,
Circa 1960s-70s
The Fornasetti plate is decorated in the Conchigl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Astronomici Plate, #4 in Series
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Astronomici means Astronomics. This is a rare pattern in black and white with gold highlights.
Mark: A moon and sun within a circle with smiling faces with scattered stars and th...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Fornasetti Egocentrismo Plates, circa 1960
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Pair of Fornasetti Egocentrismo Plates, circa 1960
Pierro Fornasetti was one of the absolute stars of Italian design in the 20th century. The ...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe Porcelain Recipe Plate, Snake a la Cleopatra
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe porcelain recipe plate,
Snake a la Cleopatra,
1960s-1974.
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate is from a series of fourteen "Cook" plates ma...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #14
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate #14,
The Keyhole,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts a keyhole...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate, #83
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate #83,
The Light Bulb,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts the...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
MCM Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Plate,
Motiv 22,
With original box,
The 1980s
From a select group of porcelain plates made by Rosenthal from ...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Plate, Themes & Variations, Motiv 19
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Rosenthal Fornasetti Temi E Variazioni porcelain plate,
Themes & Variations,
Motiv 19,
1980s.
The striking gold-rimmed black and white printed plate depicts a nude fema...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Plate, Beautiful Soup, Made for Fleming Joffe
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe Porcelain recipe plate,
Beautiful Soup,
1960s.
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate is from a series of fourteen made for the Fleming Joffe company in New York City. It depicts an improbable and amusing recipe with an image of a toad.
Diameter: 10 1/4 inches x 1 inch high.
The Fleming Joffe company was a small leather goods...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Fornasetti Porcelain Themes & Variation Plate, #15
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Fornasetti porcelain themes & variation plate #15,
The Hand,
Barnaba Fornasetti, Fornasetti Studio.
The Surreal Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation patt...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Porcelain Themes & Variations Plate, Motiv 27
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal porcelain themes & variations plate, Motiv 27,
1980s
The Piero Fornasetti Themes & Variation design is made on Rosenthal porcelain. The pattern, Motiv ...
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1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
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Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Newspaper Plate, Daily Express
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti porcelain newspaper plate,
Daily Express,
Giornali (Newspapers)
Late 1950s.
(NY8534B)
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate depicts the front page of the Daily Express from Saturday, February 11, 1956, with the main headline reading "Now, Shiver and Shake", regarding cold temperatures in Europe. Another amusing headline is "Marilyn charming says Vivien", referring to Vivien Leigh, Sir Laurence Oliver's wife on meeting Marilyn Monroe.
Dimensions: 10 1/4 inches diameter x 1/2 inch height. (26.04 cm)
Mark: Marked with a black rectangle, the classic Fornasetti hand...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
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Porcelain
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astrolabe Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti astrolabe plate,
Numbered #7 in Series
1960s-mid 1970s.
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate depicts an astrolabe in a ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
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Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Calandar Plate for 1969
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Calendar Plate for the Year 1969,
The design of the 1969 Fornasetti porcelain calendar plate depicts a bunch of gr...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
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Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti dinner plates for sale on 1stDibs.
Piero Fornasetti dinner plates are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of ceramic and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Piero Fornasetti dinner plates, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original dinner plates by Piero Fornasetti were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider dinner plates by Fornasetti, and Richard Ginori. Prices for Piero Fornasetti dinner plates can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $338 and can go as high as $8,500, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $785.
Questions About Piero Fornasetti Dinner Plates
- Who is Piero Fornasetti?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Piero Fornasetti was an Italian artist and designer born in Milan, Italy, in 1913. In 1950, he founded an atelier in the city, creating furniture and home decorations. Fornasetti died on October 9, 1988. His company, Fornasetti, continues to produce hand-decorated decor under the guidance of his son Barnaba Fornasetti. Find a collection of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMay 14, 2024Piero Fornasetti is famous for his work as a designer. The Italian artist was one of the wittiest and most imaginative talents of the 20th century. Fornasetti crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and — most frequently, and in some 500 variations — an enigmatic woman's face based on that of opera singer Lina Cavalieri. Fornasetti used transfer prints of these images, rendered in the style of engravings, to decorate an endless variety of furnishings and housewares that ranged from chairs, tables and decorative objects to dinner plates, table lamps and umbrella stands. His work is archly clever, often Surrealist and always fun. On 1stDibs, shop an assortment of Piero Fornasetti pieces.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Whether or not Piero Fornasetti images are in the public domain depends on the image. The artist produced more than 11,000 works during his lifetime. Only some no longer carry a copyright and are in the public domain. Shop a range of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
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