A Marcello Fantoni Ceramic Torchiere Table Lamp on Brass Base

Italian early Brutalist torched wrought bronze and iron table lamp created by Marcello Fantoni. The piece was made during the 1970s and has a substantial weight to it. "Fantoni Firen...

Pair of vintage brass and beige ceramic table lamp. Dealer: S138XX

Globe Lamp on Lucite Base, 1980s, the glass globe opaque white above white metal base and circular lucite stand.

Portuguese glazed ceramic table lamp enhanced with floral motif on both sides.

Circular Gilded Ceramic Figural Table Lamp, apparently unmarked. Provenance: From an Upper East side collection.

Mid-Century Modern large brass table lamp in Asian style.

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.

Ceramic vase by Marcello Fantoni, Italy, 1950s.

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...

Unique pair of mismatched Fantoni ceramic pottery lamps for Raymor. Beautiful scale and design from the layered drips to the abstract pattern. The off white lamp is signed, Fantoni, ...