Terracotta Ashtrays

A beautiful, decorative midcentury Rimini blue glazed ashtray. Designed by Aldo Londi, manufactured by Bitossi Ceramiche / Italy in the 1950s. Handcrafted with hand carved geometric ...

Amazing blue glazed (Rimini Blu) ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design and in a glazed vibrant turquoise and cobalt blue, Italy, 1950s-1960s. Marked Italy at the back. Measures: 15 cm W x 15 cm D x 3 cm H ( 5,90 in W x5,90 in D x 1,18 in H ) About Bitossi (Manufacturer) Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass. The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...

Beautiful blue glazed (Rimini blue) circular ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Italy, 1950s-1960s. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric de...

Large Rimini blue Mid-Century Modern ashtray. It has 3 cigar or cigarette holders and it is made in blue glazed terracotta ceramic, designed by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi...

Amazing blue glazed (Rimini Blu) ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design and in a glazed vibrant turq...

Unusual extra large 25cm diameter blue glazed (Rimini Blu) round ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric des...

Beautiful blue glazed (Rimini Blu) round ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand-carved geometric design and in a glazed vibr...

Large Rimini blue, blue glazed terracotta ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand-carved geometric design and in a glazed vib...

Beautiful blue glazed (Rimini Blu) circular ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand-carved geometric design in glazed vibrant...

Italian handcrafted blue glazed ceramic rectangular ahstray with hand-carved geometric designs in cobalt blue and turquoise colors. Rimini blue collection designed by Aldo Londi for ...

A Unique pair of lacquered terracotta floor ashtrays. reminiscent of the work of Diego Giacometti. Please call for detailed condition report, shipping inquiries, or with any general...