Highland Park Modern Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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

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...

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

Roundshaped lovely blue glazed ceramic vase with fishshell patterns by Bror Börsum, Sweden 1960s. Onionshaped with varoius blue colors. Perfect with a .single flower in it or just as...

Ceramic vase / bottle by Jacques & Dani Ruelland, France, 1960s Orange/yellow enamel.

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...

Ceramic vase / bottle by Jacques & Dani Ruelland, France, 1960s Pale pink/rose enamel.

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

A fantastic studio vase by Marcello Fantoni, Italian, (born 1915).

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...

Terracotta sculpture with hand painted details

Italian modern vase created by Marcello Fantoni, circa 1960's. Vase measures 10.5" by 4" and is signed Fantoni, Italy on the bottom. In very good vintage 1960's condition.