Raymor Vases and Vessels

This hand decorated midcentury ceramic vase was designed by highly regarded Italian sculptor Marcello Fantoni for American importer Raymor. The 13" tall vase has a flattened double gourd form and features colorful glaze executed in shades of blue, green, purple, blue and black. As seen in the accompanying photographs the glaze has a textural, layered quality with long drips and alligatored areas characteristic of the complexity of Fantoni's work. The underside of the piece is signed Fantoni for Raymor along with its country of origin, Italy. A striking example of fine ceramics well suited as an addition to an existing collection of Fantoni pieces or to a wider assembly of fine midcentury ceramics...

Bitossi for Raymor Cambogia (Cambodia) vase, ceramic, blue, purple, white, stripes, signed. Tall cylinder vase with banded stripes glazed in violet,...

Mid-Century Italian ceramic vase in a matte brown wash glaze with hand tooled details that create a textured scale like center. Labeled.

Alvino Bagni for Raymor vase, ceramic, brown, beige, earth tones, signed. Chunky medium scale organic gourd form vase with a pinched neck, sloped shoulders, and footed base. Signed on the underside with a Raymor label which reads: 4437 BAG. Alvino Bagni was born in Lastra a Signa, Italy, in 1919, and from a young age he began to take an interest in ceramics, which was an important industry at the time in the area around Signa, Lastra a Signa and Montelupo (Florence). Thanks to the teachings of an elderly artist, Torello Santini, he got a job in the workshop of Arnaldo Pugi’s ceramics factory in Ponte a Signa. After the Second World War, Pugi gave Bagni the financial support to help him open his own workshop. And with 3,500 plates bearing the slogan “I like Ike” (produced for the electoral campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who became 34th US president in 1953) the story of Ceramiche Bagni began. Alvino took several family members with him, first and foremost his wife Gina, who accompanied him throughout his career. The fifties and sixties were fundamentally important for the Bagni company, which succeeded in establishing privileged relations with a number of important names in American design and business, including Raymor (N.Y.) and Rosenthal, for whom he created extremely modern items for that time. In 1970 the company moved to a larger, more modern factory, where it was able to take business up a gear. Here Alvino surrounded himself with highly-skilled collaborators and artists, such as E. Borgini, M. Mannori, R. Buti, M. Santonocito, and many others, with whom he achieved a perfect balance between material, technique and aesthetics. By 1980 the factory had as many as 100 employees, and was renowned for its high-quality artistic production, elegant objects and its use of new and experimental techniques. As the working world changed, becoming increasingly globalized and open to new competition, the company found itself in difficulty. Tied as it was to its “artisanal” approach, it struggled to withstand the excessive drop in prices… despite all his efforts to save his employees and his factory, in 1990 it closed for good. However, in ’93 he was back in the game with the new venture Nuove Forme...

Artist Unknown, wonderful pattern.

Bitossi for Raymor vase, ceramic, gold and matte brown, signed. Medium scale bottle form vase with a flattened lip and glazed in a two-tone mat...

Mid-Century Modern vase made out of ceramic in deep red, yellow and black colors by Raymor, Italy. Marked and dated underneath. A gorgeous vase for your holiday table.     

Raymor vases, ceramic, sgraffito, gold, silver, gunmetal, signed. A pair of medium scale bottle form vases with incised geometric patterns and glazed in a burnished gold, dark silver...

Raymor vase, ceramic, sgraffito, green, gold, chrome, signed. Medium scale bottle form vase decorated with an incised green pattern over gold and dark chrome glazed body. Signed on u...

Tie one on in this whimsical Italian Raymor vintage ceramic vase that is a circular shirt with a tie and collar. It is conversational and it Italian pop art. These are hard to come b...

White cased glass vase with blue design. Made by Alterfors for Raymor. Sweden, circa 1950. Signed with "Raymor" sticker and additional marki...

This is one of the nicest Raymor vase's I've found and can find online. Wonderful accentuated neck and pillow form vase with abstract decoration inside windows on sides of vase.