Blue and Green Ceramic Vase in the Style of Marcello Fantoni

Colourful ceramic dripping vase by Marcello Fantoni for Raymor Signed "Fantoni Italy for Raymor" and bearing the sticker Raymor.

Rare Brutalist style welded steel freeform sculpture by Marcello Fantoni for Raymor marked and numbered under the base Fantoni, Italy, 705.

Tall Blue and Green Stripe Ceramic Studio Vase.

Pair of Italian ceramic amphora’s in the Etruscan style with painted neoclassical figures. Set on later iron bases.

Italian blown glass bottle shaped vase in the manner of Dino Martens. Unsigned.

Green glazed ceramic and silver "Argenta" vase by Wilhelm Kage for Gustavsberg Marked: “Sweden Gustavsberg Argenta".

Ceramic vase by Marcello Fantoni. Signed and with original label. Biography Marcello Fantoni was born in Florence on October 1, 1915. Growing up, he became passionate about art, and...

Monumental ceramic vase by Marcello Fantoni signed and numbered for Raymor ,tall and fluted at crème top with black glaze dripping down over a ...

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

Unbelievable stoneware masterpiece of the famous Italian Artist Marcello Fantoni in blue glazed ceramic with white ceramic laces decorated. Every design museum would be happy to have...

A ceramic vase designed and produced by Marcello Fantoni in 1983. Signed. Biography: Marcello Fantoni was born in Florence on October 1, 1915. Growing up, he became passionate about...

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...