Italian Bowls and Baskets

Wonderful vintage Mid-Century Modern glass bowl or vase in yellow attributed to Ermanno Nason for Cenedese of Murano, Italy. Yellow is one of the most difficult colours to produce an...

Seguso midcentury bowl red ruby gold dust bubbles inside, 1950s.

Hand-crafted by skilled artisans of Murano, this glass bowl showcases the vibrant colors and intricate detail that characterize the island's tradition of glassmaking. With an exquisite amethyst and pink...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown opalescent white and deep red Italian art glass triangle shaped bowl. Attributed to designer Archimede Seguso, from the "Alabastro" series. The bo...

This stunning large round tray by Lino Sabattini, a silver tray. designed by Lino Sabattini early production very hard to find the tray is polished but shows wear due to age beautifu...

Mid-20th century italian Neverino Murano glass decorative plate with iron base designed by Gae Aulenti for Luciano Vistosi By: Gae Aulenti, Luciano Vistosi Material: glass, art glas...

Vintage celadon/mint green ceramic ashtray/trinket dish with cigarette slots by Piero Fornasetti, (circa 1950s, Italy). Features lithographic tra...

Beautiful trio set by Bitossi. This ceramic set is glamorous, chic and so mid-century. The trio includes a beautiful ashtray, a tall table lighter and a cigarette holder. Together th...

Stunning original ‘La Murrina’ decorative Murano Art glass dish featuring coloured glass. The clear art glass has a pinched and symmetrical shape. It is enriched with thin layers of ...

Moon set of 4 bowls A sophisticated complement to any decor, this set of four bowls owes its distinctive crackles - creating unpredictable trace...

Stripe basket - Clear emerald green and lemon yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional information: Material: Soft r...

Each bowl have contemporary design ideal for giving an unmistakable style to any environment. The rounded triangle shape gives sobriety and elegance while the warm intense amber colo...

Beautiful vintage mid-century Murano glass bowl, attributed to Barovier & Toso. Very good condition.

6 gold leaf ceramic dishes rare design with original box.

Tutti Frutti I Special basket - Clear blue, dark ruby Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft...

Vega international ceramic italy walnut shaped bowls , 1970s

This ashtray comes from a serie "Composizione" produced by Studio Del Campo in 1975. It is made from bronze and enameled silver.

Large scale, brutalist patinated copper bowl created by Marcello Fantoni for Raymor Italy. Bowl measures 5.5" by 11.5" by 9.5" and is stamped Fantoni, Firenze, Raymor, Italy on the b...

800 silver centerpiece completely handmade. The piece was crafted from a solid silver plate and shaped in the shape of a flower. The stamens, the petals and the entire corolla were embossed and then chiseled. Subsequently the centerpiece was slightly browned to highlight the beauty of the handwork Italian...

An exceptional large shallow bowl or deep plate crafted in lattimo glass with delicate gold leaf inclusions, made by the legendary Seguso family of Murano, whose name has been synony...

This beautifully crafted hand-blown Murano glass bowl vase exemplifies the artistry and elegance for which Venetian glassmakers are renowned. The bowl features a mesmerizing smoky hu...

Tutti frutti i basket - clear blue, silver Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Col...

Venini Murrine Opache plate in coral/black by Carlo Scarpa. Numbered Edition. Handmade glass with “murrine” technique. Color: Coral/Black Technique:...

Article: Murano glass shell element Design: Antonio da Ros Producer: Cenedese Vetri (marked underneath the bowl) Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1960...

Very charming burl wood tray displaying a detailed map of Bermuda's original tribes. We see this functional little tray on a coffee table, desk or an en...

Murano Seguso bowl air bubbles inside red trasparent glass Italian design.

Beautiful and unusual vintage Murano hand blown orange, controlled bubbles and silver flecks Italian art glass abstract bowl. The piece has a scissor cut rim in the shape of a butter...

Stripe basket - clear dark ruby, blue Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional information: Materi...

Rare ashtray or vide poche in ceramics terracotta and metal produced by Fratelli Mannelli in the 1970s, Italy. The original label is still attached on the back, as shown in the p...

Heightened fruit bowl or centerpiece in bamboo and rattan. Made in Italy in the 1960s.

Net basket - Clear yellow, matt yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours: ...

Pair of bowls, one composed of 7 bowls and the other of 4 bowls, by Sabattini. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Dimensions: - First 7: diameter 19.5 cm, height 3 cm. - Other 4: widt...

This is a late 19th century Italian neo classical bronze compote. This classical bronze compote has ornate claw feet and mythical figures on either side of the bowl with rings. This ...

A copper ice bucket produced in Italy, 1930s-1940s.

Stripe basket - Clear emerald green and lemon yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional information: Material: Soft r...

Flavio Poli, the esteemed Italian artist, is celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to Murano glass, particularly his pioneering work with submerged glass, known as 'sommers...

Stripe basket - Clear emerald green and lemon yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft r...

A 1950s Strumenti Musicali decorative porcelain plate by Piero Fornasetti, the Italian master of playful and surreal self-expression. This is variation number 2 of the musical instru...

Tutti frutti i basket - matt orange, clear purple Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft res...

Article: Murano glass bowl element Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1970s This original glass element was produced in the 1970s in Murano, Italy. An elegant ligh...

Description: Cushions Color: Mauve Size: 30 x 50cm Material: Linen

Tutti Frutti I basket - Matt green and yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin ...

Maiolica sugar bowl Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm) Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg) State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges. The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit. The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis. An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137). This decorative style represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, was able to commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes. In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio). Bibliography G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137; C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8; C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455; L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.; S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.; A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17; O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.; G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981; M. Vitali, in Storia dell'arte ceramica...

Ogiva basket - Clear fuchsia, bronze Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours: ...

Tutti Frutti I Special basket - Matt black, gold Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resi...

Tutti frutti I basket - matt green and yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin ...

Tutti Frutti I Special basket - Clear blue, dark ruby Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft...

Refined decorative Murano glass plate, handcrafted by Aureliano Toso, son of the Fratelli Toso, for Leucos. This example is distinguished by its slightly concave circular shape and i...

Ogiva basket - Clear, black Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours: Clear, bl...

Beautiful, vintage Murano hand blown black and pink ribbons over white Italian art glass folded rim decorative bowl. Created in the manner of designer Dino Martens for Aureliano Toso...

Article: Murano glass vase element by Barovier and Toso Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1970s This original vintage glass vase element was produced in the 197...

The Alaska Silver Plated Brass Flower Vase was originally designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1982. The vase is also available in solid 925 sterling silve...

This Murano Batutto bowl exudes an aura of refined sophistication, perfect for any modern interior. Its matte grey exterior, meticulously hand-carved and inspired by the texture of b...

Sculptural Murano glass centerpiece with IVR Mazzega label. The origins of Vetreria Mazzega date back to 1929, when Romano Mazzega established a small company in Murano that bore his name. The factory, whose history is little known, seems to have produced pieces of high quality, but mostly inspired by the work of its competitors. In 1937 Romano Mazzega's house was sold to Aureliano Toso, who renamed it Vetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso. The following year Romano Mazzega opened a new glassworks, Fratelli Mazzega, in collaboration with his brother Gino and sister Maria. The company took the name IVR (Industrie Vetrarie Riunite) Mazzega, around 1950. Since 1954 the company has collaborated with Fucina degli Angeli, an artists' cooperative founded in 1950 in Murano. It thus produces pieces created by internationally renowned artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque. At the same time it welcomes independent designers, such as Luigi Scarpa Croce...

Attributed to Flavio Poli for Seguso d'Arte, this biomorphic Murano glass bowl is handcrafted with red highlights fading through bringing warmth into your color scheme. Still in love...

Beautiful Italian rattan basket in the style of Gabriella Crespi, around 1960's. Good condition, a very nice piece of organic furniture. Please note ...

Solid brass bowl Italian design ovoid gold, 1970.

Bronze baluster bowl. Antique bronze votive bowl with ten bronze balusters punctuating the outer surface in high relief. Italy 16th century. Dimensions: 5” diameter top x 3.25" H; ...

Elegant box midcentury silver plate decorative box. This wonderful piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s by Benaglia for Cleto Munari. The master combination of silver plat...

Vintage Large Mid-Century Modern Fratelli Toso Murano Art Glass Decorative Bowl Ashtray. A mesmerizing large Murano opal white and Gold ...