Gary DiPasquale Contemporary Vase with White Textural Exterior Black Interior

Gary DiPasquale Contemporary bark textured ceramic vase bearing amorphic form, raised lobed cylindrical body with the blend of yellow, blue and purple palette on a reddish base layer...

Gary DiPasquale Contemporary bark textured round ceramic vase bearing amorphic form, raised lobed round body, monochromatic palette with pale celadon over a yellow under-layer, white...

Gary DiPasquale Contemporary Tall Lobed and Black Metallic Footed Vase with White Bark Exterior and Black Interior

Gary DiPasquale Contemporary Short Lobed and Footed Vase with White Bark Textured Exterior and Black Metallic Foot with Black Interior

A ceramic vase signed Alistair Danhieux. Signed and dated under the base. 2011. Perfect original conditions.

This wonderful lava textured pottery vase with vivid yellow and blue shiny glaze geometric design. This is not only practical but beautiful.

Great detail in this signed ceramic vase with a glazed white ceramic and detailed with cut and formed ceramic ornamentation around upper portion. Well executed.

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...