Hand-Built Ceramic Ewer by Marcello Fantoni

Studio ceramic vase with stand by Marcello Fantoni. Tall vase form with pinched neck and triangular spout. Hand-built earthenware with rough, matte black glaze, and multicolored cub...

Hand-built earthenware vase with texture and movement throughout. Great earth tone glazes suggesting flames. Artist-signed and dated on underside.

Stoneware. Bottle and stopper decorated with beige background. Green and brown linear decoration throughout. Similar bottle available with a yellow geometric pattern.

Handmade surrealist form in ceramic with high fire glaze in blues and whites. Wood base and brass bow form. Works by San Polo of this size and abstract theme are very rare to come by.

Handmade stoneware pitcher with applied handle and pale green feather glaze. Signed on underside.

Cylindrical form with a conical bottom that forces the vessel to balance itself. Textured matte glazes in greens, browns, and yellows.

Ceramic vase by Marcello Fantoni, Italy, 1950s.

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

Marcello Fantoni for Raymor ceramic shelf hanging person. Glazed Ceramic. Cat pictured sold separately.

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

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...

Italian artist Marcello Fantoni abstract sculpture is glazed ceramic made in 1962. This piece was acquired directly from the artist by the seller, who was a personal friend of Marcel...