Ceramic Vase Signed Marcello Fantoni

Stunning ceramic vase signed A. Salvador, Spain. Excellent condition.

A stunning squared unique ceramic vase designed and exectuted by Alessio Tasca. Italy, 1970.

Iconic ceramic centerpiece by M.G.A, Italy 1970 circa. Hand painted light blue ceramic centerpiece decorated with small beautiful polar white bears.

Midcentury Italian ceramic sculpture designed by Alessio Tasca in 1970s. Original label

Petra Weiss, born in Cassina d'Agno near Lugano, feeling this call of the sea innately, in Tremona, lives the artistic atmosphere of the atelier of a great Swiss sculptor, whom I had...

Italian bronze sculpture by Marcello Pietrantoni, 1980 ca. The sculpture is signed on the base. Marcello Pietrantoni was born in Bresci...

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).

Ceramic vase by Marcello Fantoni, Italy, 1950s.

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...

Tall slender vase by Marcello Fantoni with applied enamel and various geometric shapes and colors, early factory mark, Italy.

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