MID CENTURY SCULPTURAL VESSEL FROM THE ITALIAN STUDIO OF BERTONCELLO CERAMICHE D’ARTE 

MID CENTURY SCULPTURAL VESSEL FROM THE ITALIAN STUDIO OF BERTONCELLO CERAMICHE D’ARTE

THIS IS A LARGE STRIKING EXAMPLE FROM THE HAND OF ROBERTO RIGON FEATURING HIS “SCREZIATO” TOBACCO GLAZE

PRESENTING WITH A SLAB SIDED OCTAGONAL BASE THAT MORPHS TO A FREEFORM UPPER VESSEL WITH SINGLE PIERCED DETAILING AND ASYMMETRIC ANGLED SPOUT

MODEL CODE HAND PAINTED BENEATH ALONG WITH TWIN RAISED FEET TYPICAL OF RIGON’S WORK

THIS EXAMPLE PRESENTS IN A RICH WARM CARAMEL TONE

MEASURING 370MM TALL BY 180MM WIDE BY 103MM DEEP AT THE WIDEST LOWER BASE

WEIGHING 1.18KGS

OFFERED IN EXCELLENT VINTAGE ORDER WITHOUT ISSUE

CIRCA 1960’S ITALY

FOLLOWING ART SCHOOL DURING THE 1950’S IN REGIA, RIGON WORKED FOR SICA, LE CERAMICHE ZAB AND THEN ALESSI

COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER STUDIOS FOLLOWED INCLUDING SAN ZENO AND BERTONCELLO UNTIL THE 1970’S WHEN HE FORMED HIS OWN STUDIO WITH WIFE MARIA LUIGIA AND HIS SONS

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