1850s Ashtrays

Mid-Century Modern squared blue art glass ashtray or vide poche in style of Fontana Arte. The designer signature is not identifiable but it's dated and signed in Murano 1980. Measure...

Astonishing green ashtray or vide poche rare by Flavio Poli in Murano glass. The item is in excellent condition. Dimensions: 4,33 diameter x 3,93 he...

Rick Owens bronze relic collection ashtray or vide poche. This is shown in the nitrate patina. Originally designed in 2012. Each piece is handcraf...

A beautiful Italian brass and green ceramic vide-poche catchall, by Italian designer Tommaso Barbi, '70s Modern period, Italy. Piece is by Italian designer Tommaso Barbi in a green g...

1960s stunning blue ashtray / Vide Poche designed by Flavio Poli in Murano Sommerso Glass. This piece is unique and the shape and the color are amazing. Made in Italy The item is in...

1960s Astonishing Blue ashtray or Vide Poche Rare Designed By Flavio Poli in Murano Glass. The item is in very good condition. Dimensions: 5,11 diamet...

Mid-Century Modern square green glass ashtray. This wonderful piece was produced by Fontana Arte in Italy during the 1960s. It is composed of ...

1960s Astonishing green ashtray / vide poche by Flavio Poli for Seguso in Murano Sommerso glass. Made in Italy. The item is in excellent condition. Dim...

1960s Astonishing red ashtray or Vide Poche Rare Designed By Flavio Poli in Murano Glass. It's a sculpture The item is in very good condition. Dimension...

1960s Astonishing blue ashtray or vide poche by Flavio Poli for Seguso in Murano Glass. It's a sculpture so rare to find it in this shape and color. The item is in excellent conditi...

French brown glass ashtray or empty pocket, circa 1970. Massive glass, smooth on the sides and more textured in the center. Excellent condition.

Amazing midcentury carved crystal glass ashtray. This wonderful item was designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte in Italy during 1960s. This piece is unique as it has two carved sides and two straight ones and tone of the crystal, that is a very elegant water marine. A perfect bowl to complete a midcentury-style living room or entrance. Measures (cms): width - 20 depth - 20 height - 2 Pietro Chiesa (1892-1948) was an Italian designer who specialised in modernist and Art Deco designs. Chiesa was one of the founding members of FontanaArte which was established in 1932, and as its artistic director, he designed hundreds of items ranging from furniture to objets d’art. A member of the Swiss Ticino family of artists, Chiesa is best known for his glass furnishing pieces, such as the Fontana table. Fontana Arte (established in 1933) was founded by Luigi Fontana, Gio Ponti, and Pietro Chiesa as a premier producer and marketer of furniture, lighting, and furnishing accessories, and distignuished itself applying the highest standards of glass craftsmanship and techniques. Throughout Fontana Arte’s history, its lamps and furniture have been highly sought after due to their superior glass craftsmanship and innovative design. Saint-Gobain Invests in Luigi Fontanta e Compagni The origins of Fontana Arte go back to 1881, when Luigi Fontana established Luigi Fontana e Compagni to produce and market sheet glass for the construction industry. Luigi’s success as an entrepreneur in the growing Italian construction sector attracted the attention of the French glass-making company Saint-Gobain, which, in 1910, took a majority stake in the ownership of Luigi Fontana e Compagni transforming it into a “Società Anonima” still under the direction of Luigi Fontana. By the mid-1920s, Fontana e Compagni’s capabilities included the creation of artistic stained glass that was mostly used in functional and decorative settings of churches and cathedrals. Gio Ponti Becomes Fontana e Compagni’s Artistic Director In just a few years, the production of such artistic stained-glass products had become of such importance that a different division within the Fontana e Compagni was created to further its development. In 1930, Luigi Fontana met the successful young Milanese architect Gio Ponti, who was then the art director of Richard-Ginori pottery company, and they formed a partnership, under the name of Luigi Fontana SA, for the production of light fixtures, furniture, and furnishing objects. During this initial period, Gio Ponti designed from Fontana Arte the now-iconic 0024 Pendant light (1931) and the Bilia Table Lamp (1931). Pietro Chiesa, Gio Ponti, and Luigi Fontana Found Fontana Arte In 1932, Gio Ponti approached Pietro Chiesa to join him and Luigi Fontana and to become Luigi Fontana SA’s artistic director. In 1933, Pietro Chiesa merged his studio, the Bottega di Pietro Chiesa, with Fontana SA, and together Luigi Fontana, Gio Ponti, and Chiesa founded Fontana Arte. During Chiesa’s tenure as artistic director, Fontana Arte’s production became rich and varied. It included furniture, tables, mirrors, sculptures, and stained glass, but it was certainly in the lighting sector where Fontana Arte excelled by creating lamps and lights with the highest standards in glass craftsmanship and modern designs. From this period came the Luminator floor lamp, the Cartoccio glass vase, and the Fontana Arte table made out of a single band of bent clear glass, (all designed by Pietro Chiesa, in 1932); and the Naska lamp...