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
STUDIO
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