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Your Price: $ 75.00
Item Number: 7612
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Circa: 1979
Manufacturer: Lucille Cantini, Pittsburgh, PA
Lucille Cantini 1979 Christmas enamel dish. Lucille Cantini was the wife of Virgil Cantini and an enamelist in her own right.
From Wikipedia:
Virgil David Cantini (1919 -2009) was an enamelist, sculptor and educator. He was well known for innovation with enamel and steel and received both local and national recognition for his work, including honorary awards, competitive prizes and commissions, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957. Cantini long served as a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh where he helped to create the Department of Studio Arts. A longtime resident of the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Cantini died on May 2, 2009 at the age of 90. Today, many of his large scale works on display throughout the city of Pittsburgh.
Beginning in 1948, Cantini’s artwork gained national exposure when his enamel Masquerade was juried at the 13th National Ceramic Exhibition in Syracuse, New York. In 1953 he was named one of the Hundred Leaders of Tomorrow by Time Magazine. In 1956, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts named Cantini the region’s Artist of the Year. By 1959, Cantini was considered among the most prominent contemporary enamelists, with his work included regularly in New York’s Museum of Contemporary Crafts exhibitions.
This low dish or bowl measures 4 1/8 inch across and stands 1 inch tall. It depicts an abstract stylized Christmas tree with a glowing star at the top. Orange, red, cobalt blue and chatreuse ornaments are on the tree. It is counter-enameled in a typical chartreuse color that Virgil Cantini also often used. It is inscribed Christmas 1979 and L. Cantini.
Add it to your Mid-century enamel or Cantini art collection today.
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