Description
Mid 20th Century Italian Ceramic Asymmetric Dish
Girl Fishing
By Marcello Fantoni (signed on the base)
This dish has an abstract boat shape created in a matt textured sgraffito glaze, with an abstract figure fishing within the dish. The figure is brightly decorated in a gloss glaze.
Marcello Fantoni was born in Florence in 1915 and opened the Fantoni Ceramic Studio in 1936.
Later in life he founded the International School of Ceramic Art and taught there.
He later died in 2011, hailed as “the master of beauty”.
Condition report:
Good Condition – This piece is in very good original condition, with no chips or cracks
There may be some minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use
Dimensions:
H. 8cm W. 11.5cm D. 17.3cm
Ref. 72G