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Your Price: $ 350.00
Item Number: 7228
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Circa: 1950-1970
Manufacturer: Bitossi, Flavia, Aldo Londi, Montelupo, Italy
This is a striking Bitossi Italy vase using the very popular sgrafitto and Aldo Londi trademark impressed pattern technique popular in the 1950s-1960s from Bitossi. The vase stands 7 1/2 inches tall. This vase is part of the Raymor line of imported Italian pottery and ceramics as it is carries an original paper label.
Also known as Richards Morgenthau & Co., the New York-based company Raymor was a well-known American distributor of modern domestic products, evolving from Russell Wright Accessories, with which the company's founder, Irving Richards, had been linked since 1935. The company's range included designs by Gilbert Rohde, Donald Deskey, Walter Dorwin Teague, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, and Eva Zeisel. In the post-Second World War period Raymor also imported modern Scandinavian and Italian designs, including work by Arne Jacobsen, Tapio Wirkaala, Hans Wegner, Ettore Sottsass, the Bitossi designers Aldo Londi, and Alvino Bagni. Bitossi designed a wide range of ceramics in the late 1950s and 1960s for the Raymor importing company.
What is most striking about this vase is that the orange base glaze has been covered with not only the yellow glaze seen toward the bottom of the vase but it has also been covered by a turquoise overglaze given it that Etruscan Brutalist effect Londi loved. He seemed to love to have a highly textured feel to his pieces. This same combination of turquoise on orange was used by the Royal Haeger company on their popular Orange Peel, Lime Peel and Lemon Peel lines.
In addition to the original paper Raymor label with carries the Raymor stock number 3107, there is also a label from a Ferndale, Michigan store called Casual Living Modes which retailed the piece. One can also see the Bitossi number 2112 and the trademark ITALY signature on the bottom.
The piece is in excellent condition and would be a star addition to any Raymor Bitossi Londi collection. |
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